---
name: "cntlist"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "wordnet-base"
version: "1.7-6"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cntlist"
---

# cntlist(5)

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

## 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\_list*s 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

## SEE ALSO

**grind**(1WN), **senseidx**(5WN).