flair.datasets.biomedical.Entity

class flair.datasets.biomedical.Entity(char_span, entity_type)View on GitHub

Bases: object

Internal class to represent entities while converting biomedical NER corpora to a standardized format.

Each entity consists of the char span it addresses in the original text as well as the type of entity (e.g. Chemical, Gene, and so on).

__init__(char_span, entity_type)View on GitHub

Methods

__init__(char_span, entity_type)
contains(other_entity)	Checks whether the given entity is fully contained in this entity.
is_before(other_entity)	Checks whether this entity is located before the given one.
overlaps(other_entity)	Checks whether this and the given entity overlap.

is_before(other_entity)View on GitHub

Checks whether this entity is located before the given one.

Parameters:

other_entity – Entity to check

Return type:

bool

contains(other_entity)View on GitHub

Checks whether the given entity is fully contained in this entity.

Parameters:

other_entity – Entity to check

Return type:

bool

overlaps(other_entity)View on GitHub

Checks whether this and the given entity overlap.

Parameters:

other_entity – Entity to check

Return type:

bool