Ubuntu Manpage: cntlist - file listing number of times each tagged sense occurs in a semantic concordance,

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.

WordNet Database cntlist File
In the WordNet database, words are assigned sense numbers based on frequency of use in
semantically tagged corpora. 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 that were formerly released by Princeton University. 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

NOTES

       Princeton no longer maintains or releases the Semantic  Concordance  files.   The  cntlist
       file  used  to order the senses in WordNet 3.0 was generated from the Semantic Concordance
       files at the point that they were last updated in 2001.  In general, the order  of  senses
       presented  usually reflects what the user would expect, however sense ordering is now less
       reliable than in prior releases and should not be construed as an  accurate  indicator  of
       frequency of use.

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.

       HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\WordNet\3.0\wnres
                           User's default browser options.

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