Glossary term
Glossary term
Foundations
The array index span associated with a specific subsection of a text string. For example, the word good in the Python string s="Be good now" occupies the text span from 3 to 6.
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A document understanding team extracts text spans for entities like party names and dates from contracts.
A medical NLP team extracts text spans for drug names and dosages from clinical notes for billing.
A legal-tech team extracts text spans for indemnification clauses from contracts for downstream review.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License