Making sense of sense ids

[Torsten Zesch]

Hi all,

I am having a hard time figuring out the meaning of the senseids in SemCor, e.g.
encounter%2:38:00::

I read the documentation here, but it didn't help much
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/man/senseidx.5WN.html

Is there a way to get from that sense id the "sense number" - in the meaning of "n-th sense of that lemma in the list of senses in WordNet".
encounter#1

-Torsten

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.

Yes, but this isn't a function provided by DKPro WSD itself. Sense IDs of
the form encounter%2:38:00:: are WordNet sense keys. In your WordNet
distribution, the delimited text file dict/index.sense provides mappings
from sense keys (column 1) to sense numbers (column 3). You could write a
few lines of code to read these columns into a hash table.

(Some WordNet APIs may already have a method to do this. The si.wordnet
module in DKPro WSD uses extJWNL; I had a quick look at the Javadocs for
extJWNL but didn't see anything relevant. If extJWNL doesn't have it, then
JWNL probably doesn't either.)

Regards,
Tristan

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[Torsten Zesch]

Thanks, this was exactly the piece of information I was missing.

-Torsten