1. A method comprising: accepting a request to a wild card auto completion service including an input term at least partly in a target language, the service employing a syntax to accept the input term including zero to multiple wild card characters in a first part and a delimiter indicating a second part; identifying an initial-target language pair for the request; parsing the input term to identify a pattern of the input term; selecting a matcher corresponding to the pattern of the input term; matching the input term to an entry using the matcher selected; and returning the entry.