changed 'match' to 'search' - should work now

feature_extraction/features.py

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def extract_features_from_text(text: str):
         # and match it with the input text
         if feature in REGEX_CONSTANTS:
             pattern = REGEX_CONSTANTS[feature]
-            if bool(pattern.match(text)):
+            if bool(pattern.search(text)):
                 text_feature_list.append(feature)
             continue
 

utils/constants.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ AVG_MACRO = 'MACRO'
 REGEX_CONSTANTS = {
 
     # Regex for matching Acronym Patterns -> COVID-19 / SEKA / SMY2 / EAP1 / SCP16 / ASC1 / DENV-2
-    'ACRONYM': re.compile(r"[m0-9\W]([A-Z]{2,})[s0-9\W]"),
+    'ACRONYM': re.compile(r"[m0-9\W^]([A-Z]{2,})[s\.,:\-$]"),
 
     # Regex for matching Years in the text - > 1995 / 2020 / 2019
     'CONTAINS_YEAR': re.compile(r"(?<=[^0-9])1[8-9][0-9]{2}(?=[^0-9$])|(?<=[^0-9])20[0-2][0-9](?=[^0-9$])"),