fix the regular expression matching on the full text (#12883)

There was a mistake in the regex pattern which caused not matching all the desired tokens. The problem was that when we use r string literal prefix to suppose a raw text, we should not use two backslashes to demonstrate a backslash.
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Arman Mohammadi 2023-08-02 18:22:26 +03:30 committed by GitHub
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@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ import re
nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")
doc = nlp("The United States of America (USA) are commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America.")
expression = r"[Uu](nited|\\.?) ?[Ss](tates|\\.?)"
expression = r"[Uu](nited|\.?) ?[Ss](tates|\.?)"
for match in re.finditer(expression, doc.text):
start, end = match.span()
span = doc.char_span(start, end)