haystack/releasenotes/notes/extractive-qa-answer-dedup-7ca3b94b79b38854.yaml

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features:
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    Introduces answer deduplication on the Document level based on an overlap threshold.
feat: Extractive QA answer deduplication (#6459) * Add answer deduplication * Fix test * Handle None case * Release notes * Handle cases where documents or answer spans could be None * Adding checks for Nones and satisfying mypy * Add option to turn off deduplication * Adding unit tests * Refactored tests to use fixtures * Added overlap_threshold to run * Update test * Fixes related to the merge * Remove casting, use direct variable names * Move out if statement and add new test for it * Update if statement to match comment * Update how if statements work 2023-12-18 19:27:04 +01:00			`---`
			`features:`
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			`Introduces answer deduplication on the Document level based on an overlap threshold.`