Problem to covert data from CoNLL format to spacy format

How can I covert data from CoNLL format to spacy format?

I’ve executed current code following similar Q&A on stackoverflow: How to convert from CoNLL format to spacy format.

CoNLL

I    O
was  O
born O
in   O
1981 B-DateTime
.    O

spacyformat

[('I was born in 1981.', {'entities': [(14, 17, 'date')]}),
...
]

However, I cannot fix the error.

Code

$ python3 -m spacy convert input.conllu -c conllu -o ./output/

Error Message

I’ve read the document, spacy convert, but have no idea how to fix the error.

Usage: python -m spacy convert [OPTIONS] INPUT_PATH [OUTPUT_DIR]
Try 'python -m spacy convert --help' for help.

Error: no such option: -o

Environment

Python 3.9.1

spaCy version 3.1.1

Answer

Well your first problem is exactly what the error says, there is no -o option. The output is just the argument after the input. (I see that in my other answer I put an -o, but that was a mistake.)

Your second problems is that conll and conllu format are not the same thing. The two-column format you have is referred to as conll (or just ner) in spaCy.

If you fix those issues the conversion should just work.

I am not sure what your spacyFormat line is referring to.