Missing hyponyms for "event"

[rwingerter55]

The hyponyms for ewn-00029677-n are rather incomplete.

ID	lemmas	definition	subject
ewn-00029677-n	"event"	"something that happens at a given place and time"@en	"noun.Tops"

Check for example "group meeting" and its hyponyms.

ID	lemmas	definition	subject
ewn-08324519-n	meeting, group meeting	a formally arranged gathering@en	noun.group

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".

[jmccrae]

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]

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.

"assembly"| a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose.
IMO | "assembly" is also an event (additional sense?) and so is its wn:hypernym "sabbat, witches' Sabbath":

| "sabbat, witches' Sabbath" | "a midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery [...]".

I think in this area a real improvement requires more than changing two or three relations.
If you like I can make a proposal.

[jmccrae]

Yes, please make a proposal :)

[rwingerter55]

I will :-)

[rwingerter55]

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.