visualizing spans in a notebook displacy.serve vs displacy.render

[joseberlines]

I am following the instructions of spacy in order to visualize the spans in a notebook and copying the code : https://spacy.io/usage/visualizers#span

import spacy
from spacy import displacy
from spacy.tokens import Span

text = "Welcome to the Bank of China."

nlp = spacy.blank("en")
doc = nlp(text)

doc.spans["sc"] = [
    Span(doc, 3, 6, "ORG"), 
    Span(doc, 5, 6, "GPE"),
]

displacy.serve(doc, style="span")

the result in my notebook is as follows:

it is weird that when using displacy.render the rendering is of another quality as when using "serve". Serve can not be used properly in a notebook.

I would like to know what I need to do to get the result shown in the documentation within a notebook. That means, the underlying.

[ljvmiranda921]

Hi @joseberlines , may I know what version your spaCy is? I can't seem to replicate it in both jupyter notebook and jupyter lab environments with spaCy v3.4. We encountered the same error before (c.f. #11040) and was able to have a fix (c.f. #10994) in v3.4. I highly encourage upgrading and trying again. You can check your spaCy version via:

python -m spacy info

In any case, usually you'd find a scrollbar on the rightmost part of the output cell that "hides" these span labels. The fix in spaCy v3.4 removes the need to scroll though.

[joseberlines]

you are right about the scroll bar, I did not even realised, still I get something like:

[joseberlines]

I dont know if the problem is on my side or something could be improve in the spacy side

[joseberlines]

we also use voila with jupyter lab and the result when rendering with voila is:

[ljvmiranda921]

Yes, I think v3.4.0 also solves the same problem. Can you try upgrading and see if this issue still persists? (Unless these screenshots are already in v3.4.0)

[joseberlines]

Thanks. I will update and report.