With the addition of https://github.com/JasonKessler/scattertext/blob/master/scattertext/__init__.py#L148 into the `__init__.py`, `spacy` is now an explicit requirement, because of: https://github.com/JasonKessler/scattertext/blob/master/scattertext/features/featoffsets/flexible_ngram_features.py#L4 The install requirements of the package should be updated to reflect this.