Exclude dictionaries

An exclude dictionary is a list of words, phrases, or partial strings. Any terms matching or containing an entry in the exclude dictionary will be ignored or excluded from extraction. Exclude dictionaries are managed in the right pane of the editor. Typically, the terms that you add to this list are fill-in words or phrases that are used in the text for continuity but that do not really add anything important to the text and may clutter the extraction results. By adding these terms to the exclude dictionary, you can make sure that they are never extracted.

Exclude dictionaries are managed in the upper right pane of Library Resources tab in the editor. You can access this view with View > Resource Editor in the menus, if you are in an interactive workbench session. Otherwise, you can edit dictionaries for a specific template in the Template Editor .

In the exclude dictionary, you can enter a word, phrase, or partial string in the empty line at the top of the table. You can add character strings to your exclude dictionary as one or more words or even partial words using the asterisk as a wildcard. The entries declared in the exclude dictionary will be used to bar concepts from extraction. If an entry is also declared somewhere else in the interface, such as in a type dictionary, it is shown with a strike-through in the other dictionaries, indicating that it is currently excluded. This string does not have to appear in the text data or be declared as part of any type dictionary to be applied.

Note: If you add a concept to the exclude dictionary that also acts as the target in a synonym entry, then the target and all of its synonyms will also be excluded. See the topic Defining synonyms for more information.

Using wildcards (*)

can use the asterisk wildcard to denote that you want the exclude entry to be treated as a partial string. Any terms found by the extraction engine that contain a word that begins or ends with a string entered in the exclude dictionary will be excluded from the final extraction. However, there are two cases where the wildcard usage is not permitted:

  • Dash character (-) preceded by an asterisk wildcard, such as *-
  • Apostrophe (') preceded by an asterisk wildcard, such as *'s
Table 1. Examples of exclude entries
Entry Example Results
word next No concepts (or its terms) will be extracted if they contain the word next.
phrase for example No concepts (or its terms) will be extracted if they contain the phrase for example.
partial copyright* Will exclude any concepts (or its terms) matching or containing the variations of the word copyright, such as copyrighted, copyrighting, copyrights, or copyright 2010.
partial *ware Will exclude any concepts (or its terms) matching or containing the variations of the word ware, such as freeware, shareware, software, hardware, beware, or silverware.

To add entries

  • In the empty line at the top of the table, enter a term. The term that you enter appears in color. This color represents the type in which the term appears. If the term appears in black, this means that it does not appear in any type dictionaries.

To disable entries

You can temporarily remove an entry by disabling it in your exclude dictionary. By disabling an entry, the entry will be ignored during extraction.

  1. In your exclude dictionary, select the entry that you want to disable.
  2. Click the spacebar. The check box to the left of the entry is cleared.
Note: You can also deselect the check box to the left of the entry to disable it.

To delete entries

You can delete any unneeded entries in your exclude dictionary.

  1. In your exclude dictionary, select the entry that you want to delete.
  2. From the menus, choose Edit > Delete. The entry is no longer in the dictionary.