1CNTLIST(5) WordNet™ File Formats CNTLIST(5)
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6 cntlist - file listing number of times each tagged sense occurs in a
7 semantic concordance, sorted most to least frequently tagged
8 cntlist.rev - file listing number of times each tagged sense occurs in
10 a semantic concordance, sorted by sense key
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13 A cntlist file for a semantic concordance lists the number of times
14 each semantically tagged sense occurs in the concordance and its sense
15 number in the WordNet database. Each line in the file corresponds to a
16 sense in the WordNet database to which at least one semantic tag
17 points. Only senses that are tagged in a concordance are in the con‐
18 cordance's cntlist file.
19 WordNet Database cntlist File
22 In the WordNet database, words are assigned sense numbers based on fre‐
23 quency of use in semantically tagged corpora. The cntlist file used by
24 grind(1) to build the WordNet database and assign the sense numbers is
25 a union of the cntlist files from the various semantic concordances
26 that were formerly released by Princeton University. This combined
27 cntlist file is provided with the WordNet package and is found in the
28 WNSEARCHDIR directory.
29 The cntlist.rev file is used at run-time by the WordNet library code
31 and browser interfaces to print in the output display the number of
32 times each sense has been tagged.
33 File Format
35 Each line in a cntlist file contains information for one sense. The
36 file is ordered from most to least frequently tagged sense. The fields
37 are separated by one space, and each line is terminated with a newline
38 character. Senses having the same tag_cnt value are listed in reverse
39 alphabetical order of the lemma field of the sense_key.
40 Each line in cntlist is of the form:
42 tag_cnt sense_key sense_number
44 where tag_cnt is the decimal number of times the sense is tagged in the
46 corresponding semantic concordance. sense_key is a WordNet sense
47 encoding and sense_number is a WordNet sense number as described in
48 The cntlist.rev file contains the same fields described above, in the
50 following order:
51 sense_key sense_number tag_cnt
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56 Princeton no longer maintains or releases the Semantic Concordance
57 files. The cntlist file used to order the senses in WordNet 3.0 was
58 generated from the Semantic Concordance files at the point that they
59 were last updated in 2001. In general, the order of senses presented
60 usually reflects what the user would expect, however sense ordering is
61 now less reliable than in prior releases and should not be construed as
62 an accurate indicator of frequency of use.
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65 WNHOME Base directory for WordNet. Default is
66 /usr/local/WordNet-3.0.
67 WNSEARCHDIR Directory in which the WordNet database has been
69 installed. Default is WNHOME/dict.
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72 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WordNet\3.0\WNHome
73 Base directory for WordNet. Default is C:\Pro‐
74 gram Files\WordNet\3.0.
75 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\WordNet\3.0\wnres
77 User's default browser options.
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80 cntlist, cntlist.rev
81 file of combined semantic concordance cntlist
82 files. Used to assign sense numbers in WordNet
83 database
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86 grind(1), wnintro(5), senseidx(5).
87WordNet 3.0 Dec 2006 CNTLIST(5)