Closed rwingerter55 closed 3 years ago
jmccrae
commented
4 years ago The proposal would be to change the hypernym of ewn-08324519-n to ewn-00029677-n?
Would this be instead of or as well as the current hypernym:
ewn-07991473-n (Interlingual Index: i79220)
(n) gathering, assemblage
a group of persons together in one place
rwingerter55
commented
4 years ago The hierarchy "event" > "assemblage, gathering" > "meeting, group meeting" looks fine to me.
| ID | lemmas | definition | subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| https://en-word.net/id/ewn-00029677-n | event | something that happens at a given place and time@en | noun.Tops |
| https://en-word.net/id/ewn-07991473-n | assemblage, gathering | a group of persons together in one place@en | noun.group |
| https://en-word.net/id/ewn-08324519-n | meeting, group meeting | a formally arranged gathering@en | noun.group |
But "meeting, group meeting" was only an example. We need to look for more hypernyms of "event", e.g.
jmccrae
commented
4 years ago Yes, please make a proposal :)
rwingerter55
commented
4 years ago I will :-)
rwingerter55
commented
4 years ago I haven't found a solution yet. Here is the current state of affairs.
I felt that the definitions given in EWN were not a sufficient foundation for any changes. So I looked up definitions of event in the dictionaries mentioned in issue #341.
| SenseID | Definition | Example |
|---|---|---|
| American Heritage 1 a | Something that takes place, especially a significant occurrence. | |
| American Heritage 1 b | A social gathering or activity | The fundraising event was held in the ballroom. |
| American Heritage 2 | Sports A contest in a sports competition, such as a meet: swimming events. | |
| American Heritage 3 | Physics A phenomenon or occurrence located at a single point in spacetime, regarded as the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory. | |
| American Heritage 4 | Archaic A final result; an outcome. | |
| Cambridge essential-british-english 1 | something that happens, especially something important or strange | Local people have been shocked by recent events in the town. |
| Cambridge essential-british-english 2 | a race, party, competition, etc. that has been organized for a particular time | They organize a lot of social events. |
| Cambridge us english-german 1 | something that happens; an incident or occurrence | That night a terrible event occurred. |
| Cambridge us english-german 2 | an item in a programme of sports etc | The long jump was to be the third event of the competition. |
| Collins 1 | something that happens, especially when it is unusual or important. You can use events to describe all the things that are happening in a particular situation. | |
| Collins 2 | a planned and organized occasion, for example a social gathering or a sports match. | |
| Merriam-Webster 1 a | something that happens : occurrence | |
| Merriam-Webster 1 b | a noteworthy happening | |
| Merriam-Webster 1 c | a social occasion or activity | |
| Merriam-Webster 1 d | an adverse or damaging medical occurrence | a heart attack or other cardiac event |
| Merriam-Webster 2 | any of the contests in a program of sports | |
| Merriam-Webster 3 a | a postulated outcome, condition, or eventuality | in the event that I am not there, call the house |
| Merriam-Webster 3 b | the final outcome or determination of a legal action | |
| Merriam-Webster 3 c | archaic : outcome | |
| Merriam-Webster 4 | the fundamental entity of observed physical reality represented by a point designated by three coordinates of place and one of time in the space-time continuum postulated by the theory of relativity | |
| Merriam-Webster 5 | a subset of the possible outcomes of an experiment | |
| wiktionary 1 | An occurrence; something that happens | - I went to an event in San Francisco last week. - Where will the event be held? |
| wiktionary 2 | A prearranged social activity (function, etc.) | |
| wiktionary 3 | One of several contests that combine to make up a competition. | |
| wiktionary 4 | An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases) | In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway. |
| wiktionary 5 | (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate. | |
| wiktionary 6 | (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task. | |
| wiktionary 7 | (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space. | […] |
| wiktionary 8 | (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise. | |
| wiktionary 9 | (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions. |
Clustering the 30 definitions I identified 11 senses, four of which are covered in EWN:
| Domain or sense | instances | EWN |
|---|---|---|
| general | 7 | 1 |
| organized activity | 5 | 0 |
| sports | 4 | 0 |
| relativity theory | 3 | 1 |
| consequence | 3 | 1 |
| probability theory | 2 | 0 |
| medicine | 2 | 0 |
| affair | 1 | 0 |
| condition | 1 | 1 |
| legal | 1 | 0 |
| computing | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 30 | 4 |
Next I will check if a concept for "organized activity" needs to be added to EWN and where it would fit in.
The hyponyms for ewn-00029677-n are rather incomplete.
Check for example "group meeting" and its hyponyms.
Maybe many relevant concepts are missing because they are assigned to dcterms:subject "noun.group", not in dcterms:subject "event", as one might expect. Note that according to the PWN documentation, "noun.event" was meant for "nouns denoting natural events".