medkit.text.postprocessing.overlapping

Functions

filter_overlapping_entities(...)

Filter a list of entities and remove overlaps.

Module Contents

medkit.text.postprocessing.overlapping.filter_overlapping_entities(entities: list[medkit.core.text.Entity]) → list[medkit.core.text.Entity]

Filter a list of entities and remove overlaps.

This method may be useful for the creation of data for named entity recognition, where a part of text can only contain one entity per ‘word’. When an overlap is detected, the longest entity is preferred.

Parameters:

entitieslist of Entity

Entities to filter

Returns:

list of Entity

Filtered entities