cntlist(5)

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 concordance, 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 concordance's cntlist file. See semcor(7WN) for information about semantic concordances and a list of those included in this release.

A file, cntlist, is provided with each semantic concordance for informational and statistical purposes only. The files are not used by any software provided with the WordNet or semantic concordance packages. A cntlist file is generated by counting the number of sent_num,word_num pairs in all location_lists for each sense_key in a taglist(5WN) file. The data is sorted in descending numerical order, and the resulting file ranks the senses from most to least frequently tagged in the semantic concordance.

WordNet Database cntlist File

In the WordNet database, words are assigned sense numbers based on frequency of use in the semantic concordances. 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. This combined cntlist file is provided with the WordNet package and is found in the WNSEARCHDIR directory.

The cntlist.rev file is used at run-time by the WordNet library code and browser interfaces 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

senseidx(5WN).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

WNHOME: Base directory for WordNet. Unix default is /usr/local/wordnet1.7, PC default is C:\wn17.

WNSEARCHDIR: Directory in which the WordNet database has been installed. Unix default is WNHOME/dict, PC default is WNHOME\dict.

FILES

In directory WNSEARCHDIR:

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