LEXNAMES(5)

NAME
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(1) 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(5). 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/share/wordnet.

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