MultiTerm- KeyTerm Mismatches - Reducing False positives results

@awijas, I believe that some of your checklist items have errors. For example, this one…

  • Source: "<check" OR -"checkbox|check box"
  • Target: "-<sprawd"

…means the following: “Show all segments that either have a word that starts with “check” OR all segments that do not contain “checkbox” or “check box”.”

Please note that the avoid condition is matched also by all segments that contain “health” because they do not contain “checkbox” or “check box” and they do not have a word that starts with “sprawd”. Probably you want to remove the OR in the source expression so that it becomes an AND condition (because in the Powersearch grammar “nothing” means AND).

Also, I recommend using the Test function in the Checklist Manager: Just select the checklist item, right-click and choose Test (also Ctrl+T). It will run the selected checklist item against the files you have loaded in Xbench and it will show the matching segments. This way you will corroborate if the checklist item is effective or if it requires further tweaking. Especially for complex regular expressions, it is a good idea to test them individually against a sizeable corpus.

Also, be careful when using regular expressions, they are tricky, a double-edged sword. For example, the expression "<check$" actually means show all segments that end with the word “check” because $ means “end of segment”.