11. A computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith for constructing a regular-expression dictionary, as opposed to an exact-match dictionary, for utilization in computerized textual analysis, the computer readable storage medium comprising: computer readable program code configured to define one or more data types for entries within the regular-expression dictionary in a markup-language schema; computer readable program code configured to provide a structure in the markup-language schema encompassing the data types of the entries within the regular-expression dictionary; computer readable program code configured to for each entry of a plurality of the entries, define a mapping methodology between a source definition of the entry to the structure and the data types within the markup-language schema; and, map a definition of the entry to the data types within the structure of the markup-language schema using the mapping methodology.
12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11 , further comprising computer readable program code configured to, for each entry, binding the entry, the definition of which has been mapped to the data types within the structure of the markup-language schema, to a class of an object-oriented programming language.