Adding a Spellcheck Allow List

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Adding a Spellcheck Block List

Add a Spellcheck Allow List Manually

Before you begin: To define a spellcheck allow list, you must first have enabled a dictionary with a spellcheck allow list in the Administration Console. See Setting Up Spell-Check in the Exalead CloudView Configuration Guide.
  1. In Semantic > Resources, select a spellcheck allow list resource from the list of Resources. For example, a Spellcheck - allow list.
    • If the semantic resource is not available in the list, click the Refresh button.
    • If the semantic resource is in the list but you get an error message, check with your Exalead CloudView Administrator. When a new resource is created, the changes must be applied to the configuration before being able to edit the resource.
  2. To configure the allow list resource, click Add row for each entry and in:
    1. Language, restrict the match to a specific language or accept xx (N/A) (for all languages).
    2. Level, select the matching level, for example, No (exact match).
    3. Expression, type the word to allow list, for example, exalad.
    4. Suggestion, type the suggestion to correct the misspelled expression, for example, exalead.

  3. You can now either:

Import a Spellcheck Allow List Resource File

In the following example, we want to import a resource file listing brands with common misspellings and the correct suggestions we want to show to the users.

  1. In Semantic > Resources, select a spellcheck allow list resource from the list of Resources.
  2. Click Import file.

    If it is a CSV or Excel resource file, it should have 4 columns:

    • language – the ISO code of the impacted language.
    • level – the matching mode of the expressions. For example, exact, lowercase, normalized, etc.
    • expression – the misspelled expression.
    • suggestion – the suggestion to allow.
      Example of spellcheck allow list resource file in CSV

    The Import file wizard opens to help you to import your CSV/ Excel file.

    Import file wizard for importing resources from a CSV or Excel file

    If it is an XML file, you must define a list of entries with the corresponding attributes: suggestion, level, expression, lang. The following code sample shows the same spellcheck allow list resource file in XML.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<ling:SpellCheckWhiteList xmlns:ling="exa:com.exalead.linguistic.v10" 
xmlns:bee="exa:exa.bee" xmlns:config="exa:exa.bee.config">
  <ling:SpellCheckEntry suggestion="cloudview" level="normalized" expression="cloudvow" lang="fr"/>
  <ling:SpellCheckEntry suggestion="cloudview" level="normalized" expression="cloudvyou" lang="fr"/>
  <ling:SpellCheckEntry suggestion="dassault" level="normalized" expression="dassaut" lang="fr"/>
  <ling:SpellCheckEntry suggestion="dassault" level="normalized" expression="dassot" lang="fr"/>
  <ling:SpellCheckEntry suggestion="dassault" level="normalized" expression="dasso" lang="fr"/>
  <ling:SpellCheckEntry suggestion="dassault" level="normalized" expression="daçau" lang="fr"/>
</ling:SpellCheckWhiteList>
  3. Click Next.

    You finally get your allow list resource file imported in the Business Console.