def _check_is_max_context(doc_spans, cur_span_index, position):
        """Check if this is the 'max context' doc span for the token."""

        # Because of the sliding window approach taken to scoring documents, a single
        # token can appear in multiple documents. E.g.
        #  Doc: the man went to the store and bought a gallon of milk
        #  Span A: the man went to the
        #  Span B: to the store and bought
        #  Span C: and bought a gallon of
        #  ...
        #
        # Now the word 'bought' will have two scores from spans B and C. We only
        # want to consider the score with "maximum context", which we define as
        # the *minimum* of its left and right context (the *sum* of left and
        # right context will always be the same, of course).
        #
        # In the example the maximum context for 'bought' would be span C since
        # it has 1 left context and 3 right context, while span B has 4 left context
        # and 0 right context.
        best_score = None
        best_span_index = None
        for (span_index, doc_span) in enumerate(doc_spans):
            end = doc_span.start + doc_span.length - 1
            if position < doc_span.start:
                continue
            if position > end:
                continue
            num_left_context = position - doc_span.start
            num_right_context = end - position
            score = min(num_left_context, num_right_context) + 0.01 * doc_span.length
            if best_score is None or score > best_score:
                best_score = score
                best_span_index = span_index

        return cur_span_index == best_span_index
Check if this is the 'max context' doc span for the token.
utils_nlp/models/transformers/question_answering.py