Misspelled words in Waton conversation? - watson-conversation

How to handle misspelled words in Watson conversation API. NLP technique/Algorithm used in converation API calculates the word ranking and matches the trained data based on the rank.But how to handle the mispelled words or the short names in english.

At the moment there is nothing special to handle misspellings. The best process is to use the 'Synonyms' option within entities to add what you expect the user to use, including misspellings, short names, and acronym's.

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Technical reason for no support in lowercase searches in firebase

There is currently no support for lowercase searches in Firebase. The best way to handle this would be store the lowercase string along side the original string and then query the lowercase string instead.
But what is the technical reason behind this? Why can't I do an insensitive query?
Is there a chance that this will be implemented someday?
As Jay said in the comments: Performing a case insensitive search requires logic; i.e. knowing to search for 'A' OR 'a' and Firebase nodes do not contain logic of any kind, so there's no computing involved which is one of the reasons it's so darn fast - it just raw data.

How to add customized tokens into solr to change the indexing token behaviour

It's a Drupal site with solr for search. Mainly I am not satisfied with current search result on Chinese. The tokenizer has broken the words into supposed small pieces. Most of them are reasonable. But still, it made mistakes by not treating something as a valid token either breaking it to pieces or not breaking it.
Assuming I am writing Chinese now: big data analysis is one word which shouldn't be broken. So my search on it should find it. Also I want people to find AI and big data analysis training as the first hit when they search the exact phrase AI and big data analysis training.
So I want a way to intervene or compensate the current tokens to make the search smarter.
Maybe there is a file in solr allow me to manually write these tokens down to relate them certain phrases? So every time when indexing, solr can use it as a reference.
You different steps to achieve what you want :
1) I don't see an extremely big problem with your " over tokenization" :
big data analysis is one word which shouldn't be broken. So my search on it should find it. -> your search will find it even if tokenized, I understand this was an example and the actual words are chinese, but I suspect a different issue there
2) You can use the edismax[1] query parser with phrase boost at various level to boost subsequent tokens or phrases ( pf,pf2,pf3...ps,ps2,ps3...)
[1] https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6/the-extended-dismax-query-parser.html , https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6/the-extended-dismax-query-parser.html#TheExtendedDisMaxQueryParser-ThepsParameter

How to show dictionary result of a Google search?

When I put 'chromosome' in Google, it shows the meaning, phonetic notation, usage of 'chromosome' among other things. I think it is quit useful and I use this function to look up words often. But not all words you put in the engine give you the dictionary result, I am wondering if there is a way to impose Google to do it.
Prefix define to your search query to get definitions.
For example,
define chromosome

How to create a ligature from a user dictionary in Abby Finereader?

I need to recognize a complex chemichal names from a scanned document (pdf). They contain special characters and are written in a table format. I also have an Excel document that contains ALL possible names (I would say rows because there are no combinations) that I may encounter during scanning. Is there a way to create ligatures (so the Finereader will recognize an entire row instead of dissecting it into separate characters)? I tried creating a user dictionary but Finereader does not treat it as a one row.
The only way to create ligatures is to use "user pattern training". In FineReader, go to Tools -> Options -> Read tab (changes slightly depending on FR version) and enable User pattern training. During training extend your box to include several combined characters, thus creating a ligature.
The formulas recognition using this method is tough but may be possible.
I have done this many times in my work at www.wisetrend.com. I am a former ABBYY support employee and current integrator and OCR consulting specialist. I will be glad to help if you need more specific assistance.

How to query elements from a list of items in wikidata?

There is a list of proper names of stars here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1433418
How can I query this in the Wikidata Query Service so that all individual names of stars are listed, alongwith other data in the list, such as Constellation?
In other words, how do I get at the members of the list? "Instance of" doesn't seem to work.
There is a confusion here coming from the fact that this List of proper names of stars (Q1433418) is an element centralizing links to Wikipedia pages playing this role in the different Wikipedia editions but isn't really playing any meaningful role in Wikidata: there are no instance of (P31) List of proper names of stars (Q1433418) in Wikidata.
You would have more luck looking for instance of (P31) Stars (Q523) and instance of elements that are a subclass of (P279) Star, a pattern that you will find in many of the SPARQL query examples: ?star wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q523 .
That could give this query (json version).
And if you're into JS, you can parse the JSON result with this function I wrote: wdk.simplifySparqlResults
I would not take official names of stars from there. The Wikipedia is one of the most useful resources to get first hand, somewhat organised information, on any topic. It is irreplaceable for this, and it would be a great mess not having it. However, the information is very sensitive to misuse caused by vandalism or clumsy editors.
To get (the only) official proper names of stars, the IAU is making an effort started this year. I would use this as reference. It is also stored in a text file which is easy to retrieve by a program, and is being updated while the Committee accepts more star names. It is here:
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~emamajek/WGSN/IAU-CSN.txt
In fact, as you see, the file structure is presented in a format ready to use by software applications. It has been made to meet needs as yours.

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