Adding Metadata to NER

[wjbmattingly]

What is the best way to implement the addition of metadata to a span?

I remember in spaCy 2 there was a way to add additional items, such as label_, lat_ long_, but I cannot remember how I implemented that and I cannot seem to find the solution in the spaCy 3 docs at the moment. I have tried a few keyword searches in the forum but cannot find it there either.

Right now, I am using set_extension, but I seem to recall being able to set it up so that I could iterate over the entities and grab items such as ent.label_ as well as ent.latitude_, ent.longitude_ etc., rather than having to do ._.extension_name

Am I misremembering something here?

Just a nudge to the section of the docs is all I need here.

Thanks everyone!

[polm]

Spans are Cython objects so you can't add attributes directly to them without recompiling, so I suspect you were using user attributes (via the underscore).

The docs have an example that uses lat/long, using user attributes.

[wjbmattingly]

Thanks! This must have been what I did.