Ability to modify laws

[ghxm]

Objective

Individual parts of laws (e.g. spans in the .spans SpanGroups should be editable.

Aims

• Obtain a spaCy document with updated text while keeping all annotations/elements

Solutions

A. Markup text and export marked text

• Store replacement text in ._.replacement_text attribute
• Import into spaCy/euCy with special markup reader for element detection

Problem: When re-reading into spaCy, markup will become part of document

B. Export text and annotation separately

• Store replacement text in ._.replacement_text attribute
• Export annotation in standard spaCy JSON

Problems:

• How to export the text and
• update the spans (when a previous span changes, start of next one also changes)

C. Split text and recreate doc at every (changes) span to obtain text + annotation (can then continue with e.g. 2.)

→ https://stackoverflow.com/a/75300856/5565500

Works at token level?

Problem: Problem might be computationally heavy