spaCy - Util.filter_spans

This utility function was introduced in version 2.0. It will filter a sequence of span objects and also removes the duplicates. This function is very useful for creating the named entities.

Argument

The table below explains its argument −

Example

An example of util.filter_spans() function is as follows −

import spacy
text = nlp("This is Tutorialspoint.com.")
spans = [text[0:2], text[0:2], text[0:4]]
filtered_document = spacy.util.filter_spans(spans)
filtered_document

Output

You will receive the following output −

[This is Tutorialspoint.com.]