ERROR: Could not build wheels for neuralcoref, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

Question

I am running spacy 3.6.1 on google colab. After all requirements installation, I got an error when I tried to install tokenizer

I am trying to use NeuralCoref4.0 to perform coreference resolution on google colab. I am running spacy 3.6.1 and python 3.10.12. However, I got an error when I tried to install neuralcoref. The NeuralCoref documentation say its compatible with spacy 2.1+ and python 3.6+ neuralcoref github

I used the command !pip install neuralcoref to install, but I'm getting an error;

ERROR: Could not build wheels for neuralcoref, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

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Does anyone have the solution for my problem, either a way to install neuralcoref on google colab or a simple approach to do coreference resolution without it. Thanks for your help.

I expected NeuralCoref to install correctly on google colab, so that it can be used for coreference resolution.

Answer 1

requirement.txt clearly mentions that spacy version < 3.0.0

Your spacy version is spacy 3.6.1.

Please downgrade your spacy version by:

pip install spacy==2.1.0

https://github.com/huggingface/neuralcoref/blob/master/requirements.txt