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.

FILES

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

SEE ALSO

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

WordNet 3.0                                         Dec 2006                                        CNTLIST(5WN)