Patent Document ID: 20110320468
Application ID: 12744801
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for preparing and importing lexical data, the method comprising: providing lexical data in a first format, the lexical data including a plurality of records, each record having a plurality of components with each component corresponding to one of a plurality of lexical data types, and with each component being marked with a lexical marker code corresponding to the lexical data type of that component; providing a header section including a reference to a data structure description having a plurality of data structure marker code values, each data structure marker code value corresponding to one of the plurality of lexical marker codes, and said structure constituting one of a simple/flat structure or complex/hierarchical structure; importing the lexical data; transforming the lexical data from the first format to a second format different from the first format by assigning to each component of the imported lexical data the data structure marker code value corresponding to the lexical marker code for that component, such that the lexical data type of each component can be recognized and the component can be stored according to its corresponding data structure marker code value; and storing the transformed lexical data in the data structure according to data structure marker code values, the transformed lexical data being stored in the second format.