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NAME

       index.sense, sense.idx - WordNet's sense index

DESCRIPTION

       The WordNet sense index provides an alternate method for accessing synsets and word senses
       in the WordNet database.  It is useful to applications  that  retrieve  synsets  or  other
       information  related  to a specific sense in WordNet, rather than all the senses of a word
       or collocation.  It can also be used with tools like grep and Perl to find all senses of a
       word  in  one  or more parts of speech.  A specific WordNet sense, encoded as a sense_key,
       can be used as an index into this file to obtain its WordNet sense  number,  the  database
       byte offset of the synset containing the sense, and the number of times it has been tagged
       in the semantic concordance texts.

       Concatenating the lemma and lex_sense fields of a semantically tagged word (represented in
       a  <wf ... >  attribute/value  pair)  in  a  semantic  concordance  file,  using  % as the
       concatenation character, creates the sense_key for that sense, which can in turn  be  used
       to search the sense index file.

       A sense_key is the best way to represent a sense in semantic tagging or other systems that
       refer to WordNet  senses.   sense_keys  are  independent  of  WordNet  sense  numbers  and
       synset_offsets,  which vary between versions of the database.  Using the sense index and a
       sense_key, the corresponding synset (via the synset_offset) and WordNet sense  number  can
       easily  be  obtained.   A mapping from noun sense_keys in WordNet 1.6 to corresponding 2.0
       sense_keys is provided with version 2.0, and is described in sensemap(5WN).

       See wndb(5WN) for a thorough discussion of the WordNet database files.

   File Format
       The sense index file lists all of the senses  in  the  WordNet  database  with  each  line
       representing  one  sense.   The file is in alphabetical order, fields are separated by one
       space, and each line is terminated with a newline character.

       Each line is of the form:

              sense_key  synset_offset  sense_number  tag_cnt

       sense_key is an encoding of the word sense.  Programs can construct a sense  key  in  this
       format  and  use  it  as  a  binary search key into the sense index file.  The format of a
       sense_key is described below.

       synset_offset is the byte offset that the synset containing the sense is found at  in  the
       database  "data"  file  corresponding  to  the  part  of  speech encoded in the sense_key.
       synset_offset is an 8 digit, zero-filled decimal integer, and can be used with fseek(3) to
       read  a  synset  from  the  data  file.   When  passed  to  the  WordNet  library function
       read_synset() along with the syntactic category, a data structure  containing  the  parsed
       synset is returned.

       sense_number is a decimal integer indicating the sense number of the word, within the part
       of speech encoded in sense_key, in the WordNet database.  See  wndb(5WN)  for  information
       about how sense numbers are assigned.

       tag_cnt  represents  the  decimal  number of times the sense is tagged in various semantic
       concordance texts.  A tag_cnt of 0 indicates that the  sense  has  not  been  semantically
       tagged.

   Sense Key Encoding
       A sense_key is represented as:

              lemma%lex_sense

       where lex_sense is encoded as:

              ss_type:lex_filenum:lex_id:head_word:head_id

       lemma  is the ASCII text of the word or collocation as found in the WordNet database index
       file corresponding to pos.  lemma is in lower case, and collocations are formed by joining
       individual words with an underscore (_) character.

       ss_type  is  a  one digit decimal integer representing the synset type for the sense.  See
       Synset Type below for a listing of the numbers corresponding to each synset type.

       lex_filenum is a two digit decimal integer representing the name of the lexicographer file
       containing the synset for the sense.  See lexnames(5WN) for the list of lexicographer file
       names and their corresponding numbers.

       lex_id is a two digit decimal integer that, when appended onto lemma, uniquely  identifies
       a  sense  within  a  lexicographer  file.   lex_id  numbers usually start with 00, and are
       incremented as additional senses of the word are added to the same file, although there is
       no  requirement that the numbers be consecutive or begin with 00.  Note that a value of 00
       is the default, and therefore is not present in  lexicographer  files.   Only  non-default
       lex_id  values  must  be explicitly assigned in lexicographer files.  See wninput(5WN) for
       information on the format of lexicographer files.

       head_word is only present if the sense is in an adjective satellite  synset.   It  is  the
       lemma of the first word of the satellite's head synset.

       head_id  is  a  two  digit  decimal  integer  that, when appended onto head_word, uniquely
       identifies the sense of head_word within a lexicographer file, as  described  for  lex_id.
       There is a value in this field only if head_word is present.

   Synset Type
       The synset type is encoded as follows:

              1    NOUN
              2    VERB
              3    ADJECTIVE
              4    ADVERB
              5    ADJECTIVE SATELLITE

NOTES

       For  non-satellite  senses  the  head_word  and head_id fields have no values, however the
       field separator character (:) is present.

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.

FILES

       index.sense         sense index

SEE ALSO

       binsrch(3WN),   wnsearch(3WN),   lexnames(5WN),  wnintro(5WN),  sensemap(5WN),  wndb(5WN),
       wninput(5WN).