1. A computer readable storage medium having a lexicon for storing word information and adapted for use with a text analyzer in a language processing system, wherein the lexicon is adapted to be used in a plurality of language processing tasks, the lexicon comprising: a word list section for storing a list of words; a set of data sections corresponding with each word on the word list, wherein the data sections store substantially different selected information about the corresponding word in the word list; and for each word on the word list, a plurality of pointers stored in an indices table apart from the sets of data sections, each of the pointers pointing to a different data section related to different information about the corresponding word, wherein the plurality of pointers comprises a first set and a second set of the pointers, the first set used to access information related to a first natural language processing task and the second set used to access information related to a second natural language processing task, wherein the first set of the pointers is not the same as the second set of the pointers.