1. Watchlist Management
  2. Watchlist Management
  3. Synonym Management

1.4 Synonym Management

Synonyms are words that are similar to the data being screened and support matching by increasing match scores where data is equivalent. For example:
  • 1st and FIRST
  • Alex and Alexander

Stop words are words that must not be considered for screening and are filtered out during matching. For example, Mr or Ms. Both these values are displayed in the Synonyms grid in the Alias Values column.

The following menus are available:

  • Organization Numbers - the values in this menu are considered for synonym matching.

    For example: one, 1st, first.

  • Country Synonyms - the values in this menu are considered for synonym matching.

    For example: UAE, United Arab Emirates, AE.

  • Individual Gender - the values in this menu are considered as stop words.

    For example: Baron, Baroness, Count, Countess, His, Her.

  • Organization Strip Words (shortened) - the values in this menu are considered as stop words.

    For example: &, FIN, corp.

  • Organization Suffix (acronym) - the values in this menu are considered as stop words.

    For example: Org, ORG, Inc., Pvt.

  • Individual Name Synonyms - the values in this menu are considered for synonym matching.

    For example: Aaliyah, Aliya, Aliyah.

  • Individual Title - the values in this menu are considered as stop words.

    For example: Sheikh, Mr, Ms, Mrs, Admiral.

  • Individual Name Strip Words (shortened) - the values in this menu are consideredas stop words.

    For example: al, el, bin.

  • Organization Business Word (common business words that are considered during the scoring process) - the values in this menu are considered as stop words.

    For example: Banking, Shipping.

  • Organization stopwords - the values in this menu are considered as stop words.

    For example: For example: Finance, Corporation, Incorporated.

There are two ways to add synonyms and stop words:

  1. Add a record using the Synonym window. When you add a new record, it appears on the Synonyms grid. To add a record, follow these steps:
    1. Click Add Add to open the Add Aliases window.
    2. Enter values for the fields. See Table 1-3.
    3. Click Save to save the record.
  2. To add or edit synoyms and stop word records in bulk, export the Synonyms list, add values in the applicable columns, or add a new row and provide values in the applicable columns, and upload the file. You cannot change the structure of the file.To add synonyms and stop words using the predefined file, follow these steps:

    Note:

    Do not change the watch list ID for an existing record.
    1. Click Export Exportto download all synonyms or stop words in the selected menu. Enter the values in the required columns and save the file.
    2. Enter the values in the required columns and save the file.
    3. Click Import Export. The file is uploaded and the records are displayed on the Synonyms grid. Follow the same steps to edit watch list data using the template.

    You can also export all ready-to-use synonyms or stop words by clicking Export All Export All. The synonyms and stop words are exported as a file.

    Table 1-3 Search fields for Synonyms

    Record Name Description
    Alias Values Enter the alias value. You can provide multiple values separated by commas. For example: one, ONE, 1.