Band format is a free-form format used in linguistics for lexical data.   <br><br>The following is  from a google search.<br><br><a href="http://billposer.org/Linguistics/Computation/LectureNotes/ParsingLexica.html">http://billposer.org/Linguistics/Computation/LectureNotes/ParsingLexica.html</a><br>

<br>I have used my own version of this format for a lexicon.  If you wish, I can spend more time explaining how ti did it.<br><br>Basically, each &quot;field&quot; is marked by a dot and one or more letters.  Two dots mark the beginning of a record.<br>

<br>..hw  means &quot;headword&quot;  (use anything you want)<br>.d    could mean date<br>.ge  could mean &quot;english gloss&quot;<br>.gd  could mean &quot;dutch gloss&quot;<br>.p    could mean part of speech.<br><br>Two spaces preceed each .X  <br>

<br>New categories can be made up on the fly.<br><br>Alan Davis<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ttn@gnuvola.org">ttn@gnuvola.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">() Soichi Ishida &lt;<a href="mailto:soujiro0725@gmail.com">soujiro0725@gmail.com</a>&gt;<br>
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   I have totally forgotten EBD :)<br>
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   What if I have more than one table?<br>
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</div>Then your forgetfulness is ideal.<br>
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