Setting Up a Dictionary

This task shows you how to:

See Also
About Dictionaries
Compacting and Building Dictionaries
Clearing Dictionaries

Create a New Dictionary

  1. In the Administration Console, go to Index > Linguistics > Dictionaries.
  2. Click Add Dictionary.

    TIP: For Creation mode, select copy.

    To determine which elements you need in this dictionary, see About Dictionaries.

  3. Click Apply.

Associate a Dictionary to Metas via Semantic Types

  1. In the Administration Console, go to Index > Data Model > Semantic Type.
  2. Expand a semantic type, and in the Dictionary field, select the dictionary.
    Note: If you do not want to store words in a dictionary, select None.
  3. Select the prerequisite options, depending on which elements are in your dictionary. See About Dictionaries.
  4. Click Apply.

Associate a Dictionary to Metas via Mappings

  1. In the Administration Console, go to Index > Data processing > pipeline name > Mappings.
  2. Under the Mapping sources column, expand the meta you want to associate with a dictionary.
  3. Under the Mapping targets column, select the dictionary name, and then under the Details column, select the elements where you want this meta to be stored in the dictionary. See About Dictionaries.
  4. Repeat for all mappings you want to associate to dictionaries.
  5. Click Apply.

Change the Default Dictionary

The first dictionary in your list of dictionaries is the default dictionary. Since a new Exalead CloudView installation only includes one dictionary, dict0, it automatically becomes the default dictionary.

To set another default dictionary, use the Default dictionary list under Dic­tionary.

Set Up a Dictionary Resource

This procedure shows how to set up the Words resource. You can configure other resources similarly.

  1. In the Administration Console, go to Index > Linguistics > Dictionaries.
  2. Select (or add) your dictionary.
  3. Expand Words.
  4. Under Actions, click the edit tool next to the language you want to configure.
  5. From the Edit language config dialog box, configure:
    • Max No. terms: Set the maximum number of terms allowed for the selected language.
    • Min frequency: How often the word needs to occur for it to be stored for that language in the dictionary.
    • Regexp filter: Define a pattern of words to exclude from the dictionary for this language.
  6. Click Accept.