Name

gaz table — A gaz table is used to standardize place names and associate that input with (a) input tokens ( See the section called “Input Tokens”) and (b) standardized representations.

Description

A gaz (short for gazeteer) table is used to standardize place names and associate that input with the section called “Input Tokens” and (b) standardized representations. For example if you are in US, you may load these with State Names and associated abbreviations.

A gaz table has at least the following columns in the table. You may add more columns if you wish for your own purposes.

id

Primary key of table

seq

integer: definition number? - identifer used for that instance of the word

word

text: the input word

stdword

text: the standardized replacement word

token

integer: the kind of word it is. Only if it is used in this context will it be replaced. Refer to PAGC Tokens.