diff --git a/conf/static_processing.conf b/conf/static_processing.conf
index cac811c..e32b9b3 100644
--- a/conf/static_processing.conf
+++ b/conf/static_processing.conf
@@ -240,13 +240,13 @@ basic_regex_metrics:
 	module = "posix_regex_search";
 	metrics:
 	{
-		unterminated_sentence_count: ( { flags = "E"; regex = "\\n[^#:\\*][^\\n]+[A-Za-z]\n\n"; } );
+		unterminated_sentence_count: ( { flags = "E"; regex = "\\n[^#:*][^\\n]+[A-Za-z]\n\n"; } );
 		uncapitalized_sentence_count: (
 			{ flags = "E"; regex = "\\. {1,4}[a-z]"; },
 			{ flags = "E"; regex = "\\n\\n[a-z]"; }
 		);
-		punctuation_series_count: ( { flags = "E"; regex = "[!\\?]{3,}"; } );
-		alpha_surrounded_punctuation_count: ( { flags = "E"; regex = "[a-zA-Z][\\.!\\?][a-zA-Z]"; } );
+		punctuation_series_count: ( { flags = "E"; regex = "[!?]{3,}"; } );
+		alpha_surrounded_punctuation_count: ( { flags = "E"; regex = "[a-zA-Z][.!?][a-zA-Z]"; } );
 		alpha_surrounded_digit_count: ( { flags = "E"; regex = "[a-zA-Z][0-9][a-zA-Z]"; } );
 		proper_pluralities: ( { flags = "E"; regex = "'s "; } );
 	};
@@ -272,8 +272,8 @@ remove_markup:
 		{ flags = "E"; regex = "^\\*"; replace=""; },
 		{ flags = "E"; regex = "^#"; replace=""; },
 		{ flags = "E"; regex = "<.{1,100}>"; replace=""; },
-		{ flags = "EI"; regex = "https?://[^ |\\]]{1,300}"; replace=" "; },
-		{ flags = "EI"; regex = "File:[^ |\\]]{1,300}"; replace=" "; },
+		{ flags = "EI"; regex = "https?://[^] |\\]{1,300}"; replace=" "; },
+		{ flags = "EI"; regex = "File:[^] |\\]{1,300}"; replace=" "; },
 		{ flags = "E"; regex = "\\| *\n? *[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,25} *="; replace=" "; },
 		{ flags = "EI"; regex = "^# ?redirect"; replace=""; },
 		{ flags = "E"; regex = "\\{\\{[a-zA-Z#_-]+"; replace = " "; },