Terms file

IBM provides a default organizational terms file Organizational terms are provided in the data directory and are named onterms.ibm. You can provide your own terms file to either replace or supplement the default list. You also have the ability to override information in default terms file.

Terms file entries do not contain variants. Multi-token terms with variant forms are defined in the organization variant file. The term real estate has the variant rl est. Each value is defined in a terms file and as variants of each other within the organization variant file

This file uses .ini headers to separate sections.

[version]

The first section in the file indicates the version of the file that NameHunter uses to determine whether or not the file is in the proper format.

[terms]

This section identifies terms using the following format:

termtext,weight,culture:culture

termtext

Text to be treated as a term.

Term text can be single-token or multi-token. Terms will most often consist of multi-token text. A multi-token term is sequence of two or more words (text with embedded white space) that together refer to a single concept.

weight

Specifies the relative contribution a term makes to a match score.

The value must be set to 1.0 .

culture(s)

Colon-delimited list of culture codes, which indicate the culture or ethnic group that is associated with this term. This value must be one of the cultures that are supported by NameHunter and NameClassifier.

0

Generic

1

Anglo

2

Arabic

3

Chinese

4

Hispanic

5

Korean

6

Russian

7

French

8

German

9

Thai

10

Indonesian

11

Yoruban

12

Farsi

13

Pakistani

14

Indian

15

Japanese

16

Afghani

17

Vietnamese

18

SouthwestAsian

19

European

20

Han

A

All