v1.7.5: Bug fixes and new CLI commands

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✨ Major features and improvements

• NEW: Experimental convert and model commands to convert files to spaCy's JSON format for training, and initialise a new model and its data directory.
• Updated language data for Spanish and Portuguese.

🔴 Bug fixes

• Error messages now show the new download commands if no model is loaded.
• The package command now works correctly and doesn't fail when creating files.
• Fix issue #693: Improve rules for detecting noun chunks.
• Fix issue #758: Adding labels now doesn't cause EntityRecognizer transition bug.
• Fix issue #862: label keyword argument is now handled correctly in doc.merge().
• Fix issue #891: Tokens containing / infixes are now split by the tokenizer.
• Fix issue #898: Dependencies are now deprojectivized correctly.
• Fix issue #910: NER models with new labels now saved correctly, preventing memory errors.
• Fix issue #934, #946: Symlink paths are now handled correctly on Windows, preventing invalid switch error.
• Fix issue #947: Hebrew module is now added to setup.py and __init__.py.
• Fix issue #948: Contractions are now lemmatized correctly.
• Fix issue #957: Use regex module to avoid back-tracking on URL regex.

📖 Documentation and examples

• Documentation for new convert and model commands.
• Update troubleshooting guide with --no-cache-dir error resulting from outdated pip version and file name shadowing model problem.
• Fix various typos and inconsistencies.

👥 Contributors

Thanks to @ericzhao28, @Gregory-Howard, @kinow, @jreeter, @mamoit, @kumaranvpl and @dvsrepo for the pull requests!