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wngroups

WNGROUPS(7WN)							     WordNettm							     WNGROUPS(7WN)

NAME

       wngroups - discussion of WordNet search code to group similar verb senses

DESCRIPTION

       Some  similar  senses of verbs have been grouped by the lexicographers.	This grouping is done statically in the lexicographer source files
       using the semantic pointer_symbol $.  Transitivity is used to combine groups of overlapping senses into the largest sense groups possible.

NOTES

       Coverage of verb groups is incomplete.

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_MACHINESOFTWAREWordNet3.0WNHome
			   Base directory for WordNet.	Default is C:Program FilesWordNet3.0.

FILES

       sentidx.vrb	   verb sense keys and sentence frame numbers

       sents.vrb	   example sentence frames

SEE ALSO

       wn(1WN), wnb(1WN), senseidx(5WN), wnsearch(3WN), wndb(5WN), wnintro(7WN).

WordNet 3.0							     Dec 2006							     WNGROUPS(7WN)