BUG: Fully qualified type hints in project documentation

[mrl280]

Description:
Type hints are fully qualified, despite specifying autodoc_typehints_format = "short" in docs/source/conf.py.

Project Area:
Project documentation

Steps to Reproduce:
Build shinx docs, using the procedure outlined in CODING.md.

Expected Behavior:
Leading module names should be suppressed. E.g., expect Path, not pathlib.Path, and Dataset not utils.data.Dataset.

[UmairK5669]

Took a stab at this but couldn't figure out how to entirely fix this. It seems some of the fixes that were mentioned have already been attempted when the docs were being initialized.

Here is an issue thread I came across. It seems helpful however, the main fix outlined here was to set python_use_unqualified_type_names = True, which seems to be already done for us and doesn't help.

I also came across the sphinx-autodoc-typehints project description on PyPi which can be found here. In it, it mentions the typehints_fully_qualified parameter, which we do not explicitly set in our conf.py however, the default is false so that shouln't be causing any issues. Still might be something to look into.