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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)