This section describes the enhancements to the IDOL PHI Package in version 12.7.
The address grammar now returns the PO_BOX
component for all countries (previously, only UK and USA had this component). In addition, the following countries now detect the post office name, with the POST_OFFICE
component: Canada, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, New Zealand, Portugal, Taiwan, and Japan.
The address grammar has been improved to reduce false positive matches. In particular, in the recommended configuration, the grammar no longer matches an unknown street with an unknown city. Either the street name or the city must belong to one of the known lists.
The name
Synonyms have been added to street components of the address entities. In these cases, when a synonym is detected, the main headword is returned in the normalized text. For example, Oxford St normalizes to Oxford Street in address entity matches.