Forcing Words into Extraction

When reviewing the text data in the Data pane after extraction, you may discover that some words or phrases were not extracted. Often, these words are verbs or adjectives that you are not interested in. However, sometimes you do want to use a word or phrase that was not extracted as part of a category definition.

If you would like to have these words and phrases extracted, you can force a term into a type library. See the topic Forcing terms for more information.

Important! Marking a term in a dictionary as forced is not foolproof. By this, we mean that even though you have explicitly added a term to a dictionary, there are times when it may not be present in the Extraction Results pane after you have reextracted or it does appear but not exactly as you have declared it. Although this occurrence is rare, it can happen when a word or phrase was already extracted as part of a longer phrase. To prevent this, apply the Entire (no compounds) match option to this term in the type dictionary. See the topic Adding terms for more information.