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 torchtext
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+CAUTION: As of September 2023 we have paused active development of TorchText because our focus has shifted away from building out this library offering. 
+We will continue to release new versions but do not anticipate any new feature development as we figure out future investments in this space.
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 This repository consists of:
 
 * `torchtext.datasets <https://github.com/pytorch/text/tree/main/torchtext/datasets>`_: The raw text iterators for common NLP datasets