User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS UMD 2.56

[. . . ] UMD User's Guide Version 2. 56 March 2003 UMD command line and configuration file Query the dictionaries to investigate parsing and mixed-casing Create a custom parsing dictionary Create custom capitalization dictionaries Create search-and-replace tables Notices Published in the United States of America by Firstlogic, Inc. , 100 Harborview Plaza, La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601-4071. Customer Care Technical help is free for customers who are current on their ESP. When you call, have at hand the user's manual and the version number of the product you are using. Call from a location where you can operate your software while speaking on the phone. [. . . ] Remove the words and, or, of, the, and for. For firm names, remove firm terminator words such as Corp, Inc, Ltd, Co etc. Get the first appropriate match standard for each. For example, if you are adding a firm match standard, get the first FIRM_MTC. 1 5. This is the lookup form of the acronym phrase. Certified Residential Specialist Certified Residential Specialist Certified Residential Specialist Cert. Residential Specialist Cert Residential Specialist 1. If the word is not in the dictionary, create a new entry for the word (see page 18). If the word is in the dictionary but does not list an appropriate match standard, create an entry to add the appropriate information code and match-standard type (see pages 23 and 24). For example, for the word Residential we would add the information code HONPOST and the standard-type code HONPOST_MTC. To add the phrase to the dictionary, put an entry in your transaction file. Use the lookup form of the phrase as the primary, and use the acronym itself as the secondary: Field name Transaction entry Action Primary Secondary Usage Intl Info Stdtype N Cert Residential Specialist CRS 0 USENGLISH HONPOST HONPOST_ACR Chapter 1: Custom parsing dictionaries 25 Rules for working with match standards Each entry in the parsing dictionary may include one or more match standards. You can use match standards to improve the performance of your matching or merge/purge software. How match standards work To simplify this discussion, we discuss match standards for personal names. However, match standards are also available for other types of data. In the dictionaries, a match standard is a one-way relationship, a pointer from one name to another: Alberto Allen Alfredo Alex Alphonso Alonzo Albert Alan Alfred Alexander Alphonse Almon Al · · For the name Al, the match standards are Albert, Alan, Alfred, Alexander, Alphonse, and Almon. For the name Alberto, the match standard is Albert. (Likewise, for Allen the match standard is Alan; for Alfredo, Alfred; and so on. ) If two different names return the same match standard, you can use your matching software to do multiway comparisons and find a match. For example, since Alberto and Al both return Albert as a match standard, your matching software could match Alberto Smith to Al Smith. Here are partial dictionary entries for the name Al and its direct match standards. Primary Standard ALBERT ALAN ALFRED ALEXANDER ALPHONSE ALMON AL ALBERT ALAN ALFRED ALEXANDER ALPHONSE ALMON ALBERT, ALAN, ALFRED, ALEXANDER, ALPHONSE Notice that each match standard has its own entry, and that in that entry, the standard is the same as the primary. 26 UMD User's Guide Working with match standards To use a word as a match standard, it should have its own entry in the dictionary (or have its own entry in the transaction file). 6 In that entry, the word must be a match standard of itself--in other words, the match standard must be the same as the query word. For example, you could use the word Dr as a match standard because it is in the dictionary and has itself, Dr, as a match standard: Enter a query, or press <ESC> to exit. Enter> Dr Usage: 0 Intl Code(s): USENGLISH Info Code(s): HONPOST_ALONE PREGEN3 PRENAME_ALONE Standard(s) for DR: - DR. HONPOST_MTC, HONPOST_STD, PRENAME_MTC, PRENAME_STD If a word is a match standard of itself, you can use it as the same type of match standard for another word. Field name Transaction entry Action Primary Secondary Usage Intl Info Stdtype A Doc DR. PRENAME PREGEN3 PRENAME_STD PRENAME_MTC Spelling and punctuation. The spelling and punctuation of the Secondary in the transaction entry must exactly match the Standard in the existing dictionary entry. 6. [. . . ] If the Primary is parsed as a firm location, use this Secondary as the match standard. If the Primary is parsed as a firm location, use this Secondary as the standardized form. If the Primary is parsed as a honorary postname, use this Secondary as the acronym. If the Primary is parsed as a honorary postname, use this Secondary as the match standard. [. . . ]