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NAME

       lexnames - List of WordNet lexicographer file names and numbers

DESCRIPTION

       During  WordNet  development synsets are organized into forty-five lexicographer files based on syntactic
       category and logical groupings.  grind(1WN) processes these files and produces a  database  suitable  for
       use  with  the  WordNet library, interface code, and other applications.  The format of the lexicographer
       files is described in wninput(5WN).

       A file number corresponds to each lexicographer file.  File numbers are encoded in several parts  of  the
       WordNet  system  as  an efficient way to indicate a lexicographer file name.  The file lexnames lists the
       mapping between file names and numbers, and can be used by programs or end users to correlate the two.

   File Format
       Each line in lexnames contains 3 tab separated fields, and is terminated with a newline  character.   The
       first  field  is the two digit decimal integer file number.  (The first file in the list is numbered 00.)
       The second field is the name of the lexicographer file that is represented by that number, and the  third
       field  is an integer that indicates the syntactic category of the synsets contained in the file.  This is
       simply a shortcut  for  programs  and  scripts,  since  the  syntactic  category  is  also  part  of  the
       lexicographer file's name.

   Syntactic Category
       The syntactic category field is encoded as follows:

              1    NOUN
              2    VERB
              3    ADJECTIVE
              4    ADVERB

   Lexicographer Files
       The  names  of the lexicographer files and their corresponding file numbers are listed below along with a
       brief description each file's contents.

               File Number   Name                 Contents
               ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
               00            adj.all              all adjective clusters
               01            adj.pert             relational adjectives (pertainyms)
               02            adv.all              all adverbs
               03            noun.Tops            unique beginner for nouns
               04            noun.act             nouns denoting acts or actions
               05            noun.animal          nouns denoting animals
               06            noun.artifact        nouns denoting man-made objects
               07            noun.attribute       nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
               08            noun.body            nouns denoting body parts
               09            noun.cognition       nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
               10            noun.communication   nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
               11            noun.event           nouns denoting natural events
               12            noun.feeling         nouns denoting feelings and emotions
               13            noun.food            nouns denoting foods and drinks
               14            noun.group           nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
               15            noun.location        nouns denoting spatial position
               16            noun.motive          nouns denoting goals
               17            noun.object          nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
               18            noun.person          nouns denoting people
               19            noun.phenomenon      nouns denoting natural phenomena
               20            noun.plant           nouns denoting plants
               21            noun.possession      nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
               22            noun.process         nouns denoting natural processes
               23            noun.quantity        nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
               24            noun.relation        nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

               25            noun.shape           nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
               26            noun.state           nouns denoting stable states of affairs
               27            noun.substance       nouns denoting substances
               28            noun.time            nouns denoting time and temporal relations
               29            verb.body            verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
               30            verb.change          verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
               31            verb.cognition       verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
               32            verb.communication   verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
               33            verb.competition     verbs of fighting, athletic activities
               34            verb.consumption     verbs of eating and drinking
               35            verb.contact         verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
               36            verb.creation        verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
               37            verb.emotion         verbs of feeling
               38            verb.motion          verbs of walking, flying, swimming
               39            verb.perception      verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
               40            verb.possession      verbs of buying, selling, owning
               41            verb.social          verbs of political and social activities and events
               42            verb.stative         verbs of being, having, spatial relations
               43            verb.weather         verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
               44            adj.ppl              participial adjectives

NOTES

       The lexicographer files are not included in the WordNet database package.

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

       lexnames            list of lexicographer file names and numbers

SEE ALSO

       grind(1WN), wnintro(5WN), wndb(5WN), wninput(5WN).