{
  "id": "conference.social",
  "term": "conference",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "conference",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a meeting where many people meet to have a discussion",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "meeting.social",
      "discussion.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "the people meet together and hold a discussion",
    "novel_properties": [
      "large scale gathering",
      "formal agenda",
      "shared resources"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm gathered 113 delegations to discuss pollution and resource management.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The first IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision in 1987 brought together researchers to present breakthroughs in image recognition algorithms.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) convened 195 nations to negotiate binding emissions targets.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "event.occurrence",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "conference",
    "conferenced",
    "conferences",
    "conferencing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-conference.social"
}