advertising-n; 4 Senses

Sense Number 1: an enterprise engaged in creating promotional material

Commentary: ADVERTISING[+organization][+enterprise][+business][+promotional]
NOTE: refers to the enterprise or business that produces ads, not the content of the ads (Sense 2)

Examples:
Those two men are the top CEOs in advertising.
The soft drink maker has hired a new advertising agency.
Take these photographs down to advertising on the 2nd floor.

Mappings:
PropBank: advertising.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 2: promotional media or content, e.g., brochure, video, pop-up window, billboard

Commentary: ADVERTISING[+artifact][+medium][+with_content][+promotional]
NOTE: refers to the information content in a medium, not the event of disseminating it (Sense 3)

Examples:
I just skip through the advertising in this magazine.
Mary uses a program on her browser to block the pop-up windows of advertising.
The advertising showing a half-clad girl in jeans on a billboard was controversial.

Mappings:
PropBank: advertising.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 3: the event or act of publicizing something

Commentary: ADVERTISING[+event][+communication][+publicizing][+of_information]
NOTE: refers to an agent engaged in an activity of publicizing something.
NOTE: 'X's {+agent} advertising of Y {+thing_publicized}' means 'X advertised Y'

Examples:
The advertising of this conference was not well organized.
John's advertising of his accomplishments at the meeting did not impress anyone.

Mappings:
PropBank: advertising.01
WordNet 0.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 4: none of the above

Commentary: Automatically generated NOTA sense (bbn)

Examples:

Mappings:
PropBank: NM