Creating a new dictionary type for a custom dictionary
- Select Start > Apps > Dictionary Loader.
The Dictionary Loader dialog box appears.
- Select a connection and connect to the database.
For more information, see Connecting to the database.
- Select the Types node for the active connection from the Data Connections tree in the left pane.
Information about the Dictionary Types for this connection appears in the top pane.
- Select File > New > New Dictionary Type.
The New Type dialog box appears.
When working in the grid:
- Note that each row represents one level in the dictionary.
- Use the buttons to add and remove levels and to change the order of levels for the dictionary type.
- Create at least one level.
- Create the same number of terms (one or two) at each level.
- Enter the following information:
- Type—The name for the new dictionary type.
- Description—A description of the dictionary type. OPTIONAL.
- Supports Stopwords—Select if you want to run the algorithm steps that remove stopwords from the text to be coded for dictionaries of this type.
- Term—A label for the first term of this level.
- Additional Information—A label for each additional level of the dictionary. Separate each additional information item with a pipe ( | ).
- Abbreviation—An abbreviated name to identify this level.
The full name of this level is the label for the first term, concatenated with the label for the second term.
- Tablename—The name of the table to create in the schema of a dictionary of this type to hold data for this level.
- Filename—The name of the flat file that contains the data for this level.
- Encoding—The encoding type of the file specified in the Filename field. OPTIONAL.
If not specified, the default encoding type is used.
- Delimiter—The field delimiter used in records in the file specified in the Filename field. OPTIONAL.
If not specified, the default delimiter is used.
- Click OK.
The custom dictionary type is added to the Dictionary Types pane in the Dictionary Loader tool.