Config.general.show_nested_entities is not working (with fix proposed)

pisong · October 1, 2025, 12:37pm

Here is the pull request:-

github.com/CogStack/cogstack-nlp

fix for config.general.show_nested_entities

main ← pisong314:nested_entity_fix

opened 12:35PM - 01 Oct 25 UTC

pisong314

+214 -15

**The issue** whether the config.general.show_nested_entities flag is True or F…alse, there seems to be no effect to the output. **Example** if the text is “chest pain” which matches 1) “chest pain” greedily 2) “chest” 3) “pain”, it seems to produce all 3 entities at the end at all time regardless of the flag. **What's wrong** - the current logic in postprocessing.py doesn't seem to be filtering anything. - the filtering logic doesn't appear to look at the flag at all. **The fix** - re-implementation of the filtering logic to simply use token index to filter. - the flag is passed on and checked during post-processing.

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Config.general.show_nested_entities is not working (with fix proposed)

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