A wildcard option could be added if there proves to be a strong demand for it. At present, the software is implemented to perform an exact match on words after the first word. However, these words in the entry are just matched against being the initial part of the words in the text. The entry word may therefore have a suffix which then will also match root forms occurring in the text. Note too that after a multiword string is matched, the remaining words in the string are not tagged, but instead the string is treated as an idiom.
Content analysis resumes with the next text word after the occurrence of the string.
Often, a user may want to include a string in order to have the words in the string not counted. For further capabilities in developing General Inquirer dictionaries, it is necessary to understand the disambiguation rule writing procedures in detail. Now that the Inquirer is no longer constrained by memory storage, we intend to develop a less compact notational scheme that is less prone to error, as well as to offer several new options based on windows wider than the sentence. Until we gain more experience with testing these new multiword options, including the possible necessity for further programming changes, these capabilities are not included in the Java software that is distributed. We appreciate receiving Excel spreadsheets with multiword entries as illustrated here so we can use them to test this new software, including applications to the user's data.