[pipeline] Alias NerPipeline as TokenClassificationPipeline

src/transformers/__init__.py

@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ from .pipelines import (
     PipelineDataFormat,
     QuestionAnsweringPipeline,
     TextClassificationPipeline,
+    TokenClassificationPipeline,
     pipeline,
 )
 from .tokenization_albert import AlbertTokenizer

src/transformers/pipelines.py

@@ -649,6 +649,9 @@ class NerPipeline(Pipeline):
         return answers
 
 
+TokenClassificationPipeline = NerPipeline
+
+
 class QuestionAnsweringArgumentHandler(ArgumentHandler):
     """
     QuestionAnsweringPipeline requires the user to provide multiple arguments (i.e. question & context) to be mapped