GRIND(1)						      WordNettm User Commands							  GRIND(1)

NAME

       grind - process WordNet lexicographer files

SYNOPSIS

       grind [ -v ] [ -s ] [ -Llogfile ] [ -a ] [ -d ] [ -i ] [ -o ] [ -n ] filename [ filename... ]

DESCRIPTION

       grind()	processes  WordNet  lexicographer  files, producing database files suitable for use with the WordNet search and interface code and
       other applications.  The syntactic and structural integrity of the input files is verified.  Warnings and errors are  reported  via  stderr
       and a run-time log is produced on stdout.  A database is generated only if there are no errors.

   Input Files
       Input  files  correspond  to  the syntactic categories implemented in WordNet - noun, verb, adjective and adverb.  Each input lexicographer
       file consists of a list of synonym sets (synsets) for one part of speech.  Although the basic synset syntax is the  same  for  all  of  the
       parts  of speech, some parts of the syntax only apply to a particular part of speech.  See wninput(5WN) for a description of the input file
       format.

       Each filename specified is of the form:

	      pathname/pos.suffix

       where pathname is optional and pos is either noun, verb, adj or adv.  suffix may be used to  separate  groups  of  synsets  into  different
       files, for example noun.animal and noun.plant.  One or more input files, in any combination of syntactic categories, may be specified.  See
       lexnames(5WN) for a list of the lexicographer files used to build the complete WordNet database.

   Output Files
       grind() produces the following output files:

						 +------------+----------------------------------------+
						 | Filename   | 	     Description	       |
						 +------------+----------------------------------------+
						 |index.pos   | Index file for each syntactic category |
						 |data.pos    | Data file for each syntactic category  |
						 |index.sense | Sense index			       |
						 +------------+----------------------------------------+
       See wndb(5WN) for a description of the database file formats.

       Each time grind() is run, any existing database files are overwritten with the database files generated from the specified input files.	If
       no input files from a syntactic category are specified, the corresponding database files are not overwritten.

   Sense Numbers
       Senses  are generally ordered from most to least frequently used, with the most common sense numbered 1.  Frequency of use is determined by
       the number of times a sense is tagged in the various semantic concordance texts.  Senses  that  are  not  semantically  tagged  follow  the
       ordered senses in an arbitrary order.  Note that this ordering is only an estimate based on usage in a small corpus.

       The tagsense_cnt field for each entry in the index.pos files indicates how many of the senses in the list have been tagged.

       The  cntlist file provided with the database lists the number of times each sense is tagged in the semantic concordances.  grind() uses the
       data from cntlist to order the senses of each word.  When the index.pos files are generated, the synset_offsets are output in sense  number
       order,  with  sense  1  first in the list.  Senses with the same number of semantic tags are assigned unique but consecutive sense numbers.
       The WordNet OVERVIEW search displays all senses of the specified word, in all syntactic categories, and indicates which of the  senses  are
       represented in the semantically tagged texts.

OPTIONS

       -v	      Verify integrity of input without generating database.

       -s	      Suppress	generation  of	warning messages.  Usually grind is run with this option until all syntactic and structural errors
		      are corrected since the warning messages may make it difficult to spot error messages.

       -Llogfile      Write all messages to logfile instead of stderr.

       -a	      Generate statistical report on input files processed.

       -d	      Generate distribution of senses by string length report on input files processed.

       -i	      Generate sense index file.

       -o	      Order senses using cntlist.

       -n	      Generate nominalization (derivational morphology) links in database.

       filename       Input file of the form described in Input Files.

FILES

       pos.*		   lexicographer files to use to build database

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

SEE ALSO

       cntlist(5WN), lexnames(5WN), senseidx(5WN), wndb(5WN), wninput(5WN), uniqbeg(7WN), wngloss(7WN).

DIAGNOSTICS

       Exit status is normally 0.  Exit status is -1 if non-specific error occurs.  If syntactic or structural errors exist, exit status is number
       of errors detected.

       usage: grind [-v] [-s] [-Llogfile] [-a ] [-d] [-i] [-o] [-n] filename [filename...]
	      Invalid options were specified on the command line.

       No input files processed.
	      None of the filenames specified were of the appropriate form.

       n syntactic errors found.
	      Syntax errors were found while parsing the input files.

       n structural errors found.
	      Pointer errors were found that could not be automatically corrected.

BUGS

       Please report bugs to wordnet@princeton.edu.

WordNet 3.0							     Dec 2006								  GRIND(1)