WNINTRO(5WN)

💖 WNINTRO — the WordNet™ File Formats era 💖

okay bestie, welcome to wnintro(5WN), the lil intro page that's basically the group chat invite to all the WordNet file format lore ✨ this is the WordNet™ File Formats section of the manual, and yes she's serving reference material, no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

wnintro — the intro to all the descriptions of WordNet file formats, like the lil tour guide of the whole vibe 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the whole squad of pages this intro is hyping up, one per line, exactly as they come:

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

so like, cntlist is the format of the cntlist and cntlist.rev files 🎀, lexnames is the list of lexicographer file names and numbers 📋, prologdb describes the Prolog database files 🧠, senseidx is the format of the sense index file 🔍, sensemap maps senses from WordNet 2.1 to their corresponding 3.0 senses (glow up era 🌈), wndb is the format of the WordNet database files 💾, and wninput is the format of the WordNet lexicographer files 📝. iconic lineup fr fr.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this whole section of the WordNet Reference Manual is literally just manual pages describing the formats of the various files that come in the different WordNet 3.0 packages 📦✨. that's it, that's the gig. every file format got her own page and this is the hallway that connects them all 💖

💀 NOMENCLATURE 💀

okay this part matters, bestie, don't skip it, this is the key to reading every other page 🗝️

• all files are in ASCII 🅰️
• fields are generally separated by one space, unless the page says otherwise
• every line is terminated 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 — like, literally that character, sitting right there
• items enclosed in italicized square brackets ( [ ] ) may not be present — so treat them like the optional guest at the party 🙈
• since several files contain fields that have the identical meaning, field names are consistently defined across the board. for example: several WordNet files contain one or more synset_offset fields, and in each case the definition of synset_offset is identical. no cap, same definition every single time 🔥

lowkey this consistency thing is the whole reason these pages are readable. same name = same meaning. periodt. 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these next, bestie, they're all connected 🫶

• wnintro(1WN)
• wnintro(3WN)
• cntlist(5WN)
• lexnames(5WN)
• prologdb(5WN)
• senseidx(5WN)
• sensemap(5WN)
• wndb(5WN)
• wninput(5WN)
• wnintro(7WN)
• wngloss(7WN)

and if you wanna go academic mode 📚✨:

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

and that's the whole page, gorgeous 🌈💜 this was WordNet 3.0, dated Dec 2006 — yeah she's vintage but she ate and she's still serving ✨ mwah, go read the other pages now, ily 🎀🦋💖