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match()'s best_match and ignore_syntax arguments are never forwarded to the internal matcher - they have no effect #102

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@CyraxSector

Environment

  • quickumls==1.4.2 (pip)
  • Python 3.10
  • Index built with python -m quickumls.install -L -U -E ENG

Summary
QuickUMLS.match() accepts best_match and ignore_syntax parameters, but never passes them through to the internal _match() call:

def match(self, text, best_match=True, ignore_syntax=False):                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
      parsed = self.nlp(u'{}'.format(text))                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
      matches = self._match(parsed)   # best_match, ignore_syntax are dropped here                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
      return matches 

_match() has its own defaults (best_match=True, ignore_syntax=False) and always runs with those, regardless of what was passed to match(). As a result, calling matcher.match(text, best_match=False) (or ignore_syntax=True) silently behaves identically to matcher.match(text) — the arguments have no effect.

Expected: matcher.match(text, best_match=False) returns all overlapping candidates, as documented.

Actual: it returns the same result as best_match=True, because the argument is never forwarded.

Suggested fix

def match(self, text, best_match=True, ignore_syntax=False):                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
      parsed = self.nlp(u'{}'.format(text))                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
      matches = self._match(parsed, best_match=best_match, ignore_syntax=ignore_syntax)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
      return matches

Workaround in the meantime: call matcher._match(doc, best_match=..., ignore_syntax=...) directly instead of the public match().

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