v1.0.3

1.0.3 - 2023-08-15

Features

• Improved spacy tokenization for the ExplosionStringMatchingStep.
  Previously, this caused us to miss entities that ended with a single-letter uppercase token at the end (like 'Haemophilia A') if it was at the end of a sentence.
• Make SpanFinder return found spans directly, rather than having to access .closed_spans after calling, which is easier. Note that .closed_spans remains, so this is backwards-compatible.
• Turned on 'strict' mypy checking (with some exceptions as to the exact flags used), and fixed issues that this raised.

Bugfixes

• Fix incorrect caching behaviour of Index TfidfVectorizer builds.
  This meant they got rebuilt every time, which meant in turn that the cache and therefore the model pack size grew after use.

Improved Documentation

• Started using docformatter to automatically format docstrings, and tweak minor issues this brought up.
  This will help us comply with PEP257 and be consistent across the codebase.

Deprecations and Removals

• Removed various pieces of dead code.
  These are very unlikely to have been used by end users, so not deprecating/doing a major version bump.
• Rename Type Alias JsonDictType to JsonEncodable - which is more straightforward/correct what it actually means.
  This was used internally to Kazu rather than being expected to be used by end users, so no deprecation/major version bump.