WNINTRO(5)

💖 WNINTRO 💖 — the WordNet™ File Formats girlies' intro page (section 5, bestie)

okay so. hi. you found the intro page for the WordNet™ file format manual pages and honestly? you're gonna eat this up. this is wnintro, and it's literally just the doorway to the whole format documentation situation. come on in, the vibes are immaculate 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

wnintro — the little intro page that introduces all the descriptions of the WordNet file formats. it's giving hostess at the party 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌨

here's the whole squad, one per line, no notes:

cntlist - format of cntlist and cntlist.rev files

lexnames - list of lexicographer file names and numbers

prologdb - description of Prolog database files

senseidx - format of sense index file

sensemap - mapping from senses in WordNet 2.1 to corresponding 3.0
senses

wndb - format of WordNet database files

wninput - format of WordNet lexicographer files

each one of those is a whole page bestie. they're all right there. go read them. 🫶

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so this section of the WordNet Reference Manual is literally just the collection of manual pages that describe the formats of the various files included in the different WordNet 3.0 packages. that's it. that's the whole job. it's the table of contents of file-format lore and it is iconic. ✨

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🎀 NOMENCLATURE 🎀

okay this part matters, listen up, this is the rules of the game:

• every file is ASCII. periodt. no cap. 💀
• fields are generally separated by one space, unless the page says otherwise.
• every line ends with a newline character.
• in the file format descriptions, terms in italics refer to field names. 📝
• characters or strings in boldface represent an actual character or string as it appears in the file.
• items enclosed in italicized square brackets ([ ]) may not be present. so like, optional. if you see it you can relax, it might just not be there. 🙈

and here's the cute part — since several files contain fields that have the identical meaning, field names are consistently defined across the whole set. for example, several WordNet files contain one or more synset_offset fields. and in each case, the definition of synset_offset is identical. so like, learn it once, you're set forever. no repeated studying. we love a consistent queen. 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole extended family, in order:

wnintro(1), wnintro(3), cntlist(5), lexnames(5), prologdb(5), senseidx(5), sensemap(5), wndb(5), wninput(5), wnintro(7), wngloss(7).

also the actual academic citation, because we are scholars first and foremost:

Fellbaum, C. (1998), ed. "WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database". MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

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and that's the page bestie!! 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶

this was the WordNet 3.0 version, dated Dec 2006, and it lives at WNINTRO(5) in the manual. mwah. go forth and read some file formats. you're gonna slay. 👑🔥