WNGROUPS(7)

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💜 WNGROUPS(7) — the WordNet™ page about grouping similar verb senses

okay bestie, welcome to wngroups, section 7 of the WordNet manual 💅 this one's a lil explainer, not a command — it's the lore behind how WordNet groups up verb senses that are basically the same vibe.

✨ NAME ✨

wngroups — discussion of WordNet search code to group similar verb senses 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea ☕: some similar senses of verbs have been grouped by the lexicographers. Not by a script, not by vibes alone — by actual humans who know their stuff.

This grouping is done statically in the lexicographer source files, using the semantic pointer_symbol $. Yes, that little dollar sign is doing the Lord's work 🙏

Then transitivity is used to combine groups of overlapping senses into the largest sense groups possible. Like, if group A overlaps group B, they get merged into one big main-character group 👑

🎀 NOTES 🎀

Coverage of verb groups is incomplete. Not every verb got the group-chat invite yet. 😭

🫶 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_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WordNet\3.0\WNHome — Base directory for WordNet. Default is C:\Program Files\WordNet\3.0.

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • sentidx.vrb — verb sense keys and sentence frame numbers ✨
  • sents.vrb — example sentence frames 🌈

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

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

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💜 this one's from WordNet 3.0, dated Dec 2006 — vintage but still iconic, no cap 👑✨

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