fix: refactor & resolve a subset of mypy issues

[mhoff]

Description

• Briefly summarize your changes in a few bullet points (can and should correspond to CHANGELOG.md)
• Relates to #XXX (insert issue number here), if there is a corresponding GH issue

Assignee

• The changes adhere to the contribution guidelines
• I have performed a self-review of my code
• My changes generate no new warnings (e.g. flake8/mypy/pytest/...) other than deprecations

Documentation

• README.md is up-to-date
• CHANGELOG.md is up-to-date
• Documentation (doc/source) is up-to-date
• Preview for docs looks fine
• Notebooks are up-to-date and functional
• Examples are up-to-date and functional (including compose & k8s)

Code Quality

• Patch test coverage > 95% and does not decrease
• New code uses correct & specific type hints

How did you verify that the changes work in practice?

• List of (preferably easy reproducible) tests including OS

Reviewer

• The code is readable/maintainable and follows the contribution guidelines
• Documentation is up-to-date
• Tests (unit & acceptance) are meaningful and not over-mocked

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 98.55072% with 2 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 96.13%. Comparing base (738d7dc) to head (59f536c).
⚠️ Report is 3 commits behind head on main.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
logprep/filter/lucene_filter.py	90.00%	1 Missing ⚠️
logprep/util/helper.py	96.29%	1 Missing ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

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  Coverage   96.12%   96.13%           
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  Files         217      217           
  Lines       14202    14221   +19     
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+ Hits        13652    13671   +19     
  Misses        550      550           

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