OT: I want to get into transformers for NLP, what's the best way?
About me: Mostly done TS the last years. Dipped into Python, a bit pandas, a bit numpy, a bit Kaggle for the last 3-4 weeks.
Why I ask: It's so easy to get lost, this field is wide, e.g. I spent days with spaCy, CoreNLP, etc. before I learned that transformers-based stuff exist and outperform former.
Try spacy alpha 3.0 it integrate the https://github.com/huggingface/transformers library
You should almost always use XLnet large in order to achieve the best accuracy