Customize Stop Lists

The IDOL PCI Package post-processing script (see Configure Post Processing) uses stop lists to discard matches that are likely to be false positives. You can add entries to the stop lists, or remove entries, by modifying the following files.

  • scripts/names_stoplist.lua contains two stop lists to discard names. In the stopnames list, each component is plausible but the entire match is likely to be a false positive, for example "Christian Church" or "Norman Conquest". The stopwords list contains common words that are likely to indicate a false positive when returned as either the FORENAME or SURNAME component of a name match.

    You can customize the stop lists in this file such that a name can be considered a false positive in one country but not another.