New in this Release
This section describes the enhancements to the IDOL PHI Package in version 12.8.
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The name grammar has additional entities for matching names in the format title and surname, for example Mr. Smith.
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The
medical_terms
grammar has been expanded to include entities for matching medical terms, conditions, and drugs. -
Region names are now normalized in the
address.ecr
andlocation.ecr
grammars. This applies to states for the USA, Australia, and Brazil, provinces for Canada and South Africa, and counties for the UK. The detected value is normalized to the fullest version of the region name, for example, TX normalizes to TEXAS. -
The address grammar has been updated to match common abbreviations of US cities such as Ft. Lauderdale or St Louis. These values are normalized to Fort and Saint in postprocessing.
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Dates matched by the date grammars are now normalized to ISO-8601 format (
YYYY-MM-DD
).Partial dates without a year are formatted
--MM-DD
.If speed is your priority, you can disable date normalization by setting the
normalize_dates
parameter in thephi_postprocessing.lua
script tofalse
.