LEXNAMES(5WN)						      WordNettm File Formats						     LEXNAMES(5WN)

NAME

       lexnames - 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(1WN) 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(5WN).

       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 deci-
       mal integer file number.  (The first file in the list is numbered 00.)  The second field is the name of the lexicographer file that is rep-
       resented  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  con-
       tents.

				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/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

       lexnames 	   list of lexicographer file names and numbers

SEE ALSO

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

WordNet 3.0							     Dec 2006							     LEXNAMES(5WN)