Talk:WordNet

Latest comment: 2 months ago by Jovan04 in topic Database Contents numbers

Database Contents numbers

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The first paragraph of the "Database Contents" section reads: "The database contains 155,327 words organized in 175,979 synsets for a total of 207,016 word-sense pairs; in compressed form, it is about 12 megabytes in size."

How were these numbers reached? The linked source is no longer available, but looking up its last archive on the wayback machine (from 2017) shows different numbers. The words and word-sense numbers are only slightly off, but the synsets total is off by almost 60,000.

Also, the wording of that paragraph - "...for a total of 207,016 word-sense pairs" - makes it sound like that 207,016 number is a result of the previous few numbers. is that the case? Jovan04 (talk) 03:41, 18 March 2026 (UTC)Reply