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+# Natural language processing
+
+This repository provides all code that is needed to build a container image for natural language processing utilising [spaCy](https://spacy.io).
+In case you don't want to build the image by yourself, there is also a prebuild image that can be used in the [registry](https://gitlab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb1288inf/nlp/container_registry).
+
+## Build the image
+
+```console
+user@machine:~$ cd <path-to-this-repository>
+user@machine:~$ docker build -t gitlab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de:4567/sfb1288inf/nlp .
+```
+
+## Starting a container
+
+```console
+user@machine:~$ docker run \
+  --name nlp-container \
+  -dit \
+  -v <your-input-directory>:/root/files_for_nlp \
+  -v <your-output-directory>:/root/files_from_nlp \
+  gitlab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de:4567/sfb1288inf/nlp
+```
+
+## Start a natural language processing run
+
+```console
+user@machine:~$ docker exec -it nlp-container \
+  nlp -i files_for_nlp -o files_from_nlp -l <language-code>
+```
+
+Where <language-code> needs to be one of the following:
+
+* de (Deutsch)
+* en (Englisch)
+* es (Spanish)
+* fr (Französisch)
+* pt (Portugisisch)
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