in utils_nlp/models/transformers/question_answering.py [0:0]
def _check_is_max_context(doc_spans, cur_span_index, position):
"""Check if this is the 'max context' doc span for the token."""
# Because of the sliding window approach taken to scoring documents, a single
# token can appear in multiple documents. E.g.
# Doc: the man went to the store and bought a gallon of milk
# Span A: the man went to the
# Span B: to the store and bought
# Span C: and bought a gallon of
# ...
#
# Now the word 'bought' will have two scores from spans B and C. We only
# want to consider the score with "maximum context", which we define as
# the *minimum* of its left and right context (the *sum* of left and
# right context will always be the same, of course).
#
# In the example the maximum context for 'bought' would be span C since
# it has 1 left context and 3 right context, while span B has 4 left context
# and 0 right context.
best_score = None
best_span_index = None
for (span_index, doc_span) in enumerate(doc_spans):
end = doc_span.start + doc_span.length - 1
if position < doc_span.start:
continue
if position > end:
continue
num_left_context = position - doc_span.start
num_right_context = end - position
score = min(num_left_context, num_right_context) + 0.01 * doc_span.length
if best_score is None or score > best_score:
best_score = score
best_span_index = span_index
return cur_span_index == best_span_index