diff --git a/concise_concepts/conceptualizer/Conceptualizer.py b/concise_concepts/conceptualizer/Conceptualizer.py
index 71d5cab..04a7d56 100644
--- a/concise_concepts/conceptualizer/Conceptualizer.py
+++ b/concise_concepts/conceptualizer/Conceptualizer.py
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ def add_patterns(input_dict: dict) -> None:
                             if self.include_compound_words:
                                 compound_rule = {
                                     "DEP": {"IN": ["amod", "compound"]},
-                                    "OP": "?",
+                                    "OP": "*",
                                 }
                                 patterns.append(
                                     {
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index fceed1c..98b80ee 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "concise-concepts"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.7.3"
 description = "This repository contains an easy and intuitive approach to few-shot NER using most similar expansion over spaCy embeddings. Now with entity confidence scores!"
 authors = ["David Berenstein <david.m.berenstein@gmail.com>"]
 license = "MIT"