Rules containing wildcards

[huangruizhe]

Hello, do you plan to enable wildcards in the file of custom synonyms?

For example:

[w]'s    |   [w] is
[w]'s    |   [w] has

where [w] can match any word. This is quite common, as [w] can be a person's or company's name.

[huangruizhe]

Another possible rule is:

[w1] [w2]    |   [w1][w2]

where the space between [w1] and [w2] is optional. For example, "touch tone" vs. "touchtone". What do you think?

[nishchalb]

Hi, the synonym feature is intended to be conservative to avoid capturing things that don't make sense, e.g. for your example sally's code would be treated as equivalent to sally is code.

But, if you would like to proceed with those examples, you could either:

• Iterate through your reference files and build a synonym list that has sufficient rules for them
• Use the normalization feature, which gives you more fine grained control over where synonyms can apply

[huangruizhe]

Thanks for the suggestion! Yeah, that should also work.