medkit.text.postprocessing.overlapping
======================================

.. py:module:: medkit.text.postprocessing.overlapping


Functions
---------

.. autoapisummary::

   medkit.text.postprocessing.overlapping.filter_overlapping_entities


Module Contents
---------------

.. py:function:: 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:

       **entities** : list of Entity
           Entities to filter



   :Returns:

       list of Entity
           Filtered entities











   ..
       !! processed by numpydoc !!