anyone know how to look up a non-key value in a hashmap

I have a hasmap of words. words are made of

synsetID
word
type

the key field is the word since you cannot have a duplicate entry in a dictionary. A number of words can belong to the same synset (eg complete, whole, everything have pretty much the same meaning so would have the same synset.)

At the moment i can use this code to find a word in the hashmap pretty quick.

public word getWord(String word)
{
return words.get(word);
}

However, I need to be able to look up synonyms from the synsetID. since, the synsetID isn't a key-value i'm not sure how to look it up in the hashmap.

Any ideas? I've googled, but not got very far.

Posted By: Erdington Yella, Dec 12, 18:58:58