CNTLIST(5WN)                          WordNet™ File Formats                          CNTLIST(5WN)



NAME
       cntlist - file listing number of times each tagged sense occurs in a semantic concordance,
       sorted most to least frequently tagged

       cntlist.rev - file listing number of times each tagged sense occurs in a semantic  concor‐
       dance, sorted by sense key

DESCRIPTION
       A  cntlist  file  for  a  semantic concordance lists the number of times each semantically
       tagged sense occurs in the concordance and its sense number in the WordNet database.  Each
       line  in  the  file  corresponds  to a sense in the WordNet database to which at least one
       semantic tag points.  Only senses that are tagged in a  concordance  are  in  the  concor‐
       dance's cntlist file.


   WordNet Database cntlist File
       In  the  WordNet  database,  words are assigned sense numbers based on frequency of use in
       semantically tagged corpora.  The cntlist file used by grind(1WN)  to  build  the  WordNet
       database  and  assign  the  sense numbers is a union of the cntlist files from the various
       semantic concordances that were formerly released by Princeton University.  This  combined
       cntlist  file  is provided with the WordNet package and is found in the WNSEARCHDIR direc‐
       tory.

       The cntlist.rev file is used at run-time by the WordNet library code  and  browser  inter‐
       faces to print in the output display the number of times each sense has been tagged.

   File Format
       Each  line in a cntlist file contains information for one sense.  The file is ordered from
       most to least frequently tagged sense.  The fields are separated by one  space,  and  each
       line  is  terminated  with  a newline character.  Senses having the same tag_cnt value are
       listed in reverse alphabetical order of the lemma field of the sense_key.

       Each line in cntlist is of the form:

              tag_cnt  sense_key  sense_number

       where tag_cnt is the decimal number of times the sense  is  tagged  in  the  corresponding
       semantic concordance.  sense_key is a WordNet sense encoding and sense_number is a WordNet
       sense number as described in

       The cntlist.rev file contains the same fields described above, in the following order:

              sense_key  sense_number  tag_cnt


NOTES
       Princeton no longer maintains or releases the Semantic  Concordance  files.   The  cntlist
       file  used  to order the senses in WordNet 3.0 was generated from the Semantic Concordance
       files at the point that they were last updated in 2001.  In general, the order  of  senses
       presented  usually reflects what the user would expect, however sense ordering is now less
       reliable than in prior releases and should not be construed as an  accurate  indicator  of
       frequency of use.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES (UNIX)
       WNHOME              Base directory for WordNet.  Default is /usr/local/WordNet-3.0.

       WNSEARCHDIR         Directory  in  which the WordNet database has been installed.  Default
                           is WNHOME/dict.

REGISTRY (WINDOWS)
       HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WordNet\3.0\WNHome
                           Base directory for WordNet.  Default is C:\Program Files\WordNet\3.0.

       HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\WordNet\3.0\wnres
                           User's default browser options.

FILES
       cntlist, cntlist.rev
                           file of combined semantic concordance cntlist files.  Used  to  assign
                           sense numbers in WordNet database

SEE ALSO
       grind(1WN), wnintro(5WN), senseidx(5WN).



WordNet 3.0                                  Dec 2006                                CNTLIST(5WN)