campaign-n; 5 Senses

Sense Number 1: a political race or contest for election

Commentary: CAMPAIGN[+activity][+organized][+contest][+political]

Examples:
Who will run against her in the senate campaign?
We attended a fund-raising dinner for his political campaign.
Both candidates have run a clean campaign thus far.

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

Sense Number 2: an organized course of action to achieve a goal, a venture

Commentary: CAMPAIGN[+activity][+organized][+venture]

Examples:
They are running a successful advertising campaign.
Since the scandal their company has been running a real charm campaign to win back customers.
We declined Bob's invitation to go on a hunting campaign in Alaska.
How is his campaign to win Sally's heart faring?

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 4

Sense Number 3: a series of military operations to attain an objective

Commentary: CAMPAIGN[+activity][+operation][+military]

Examples:
He was the commander of the air campaign in Iraq.
The army set off on campaign.
John is reading an interesting history of the desert campaigns of north Africa during WWII.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3

Sense Number 4: the people working on behalf of a political candidate

Commentary: CAMPAIGN[+entity][+group][+people][+worker][+for_candidate][+political]
NOTE: a metonymic usage - referring to the people involved, -not- the activities, events (Sense 1)

Examples:
The Clinton campaign said they would continue to push for delegates in the midwest.
The Johnson campaign hopes to win the endorsement from the trade unions.
His campaign announced they are running low on funding as of this week.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 0.0 Sense Numbers: found_in_corpus

Sense Number 5: none of the above

Commentary: Automatically generated NOTA sense (bbn)

Examples:

Mappings:
PropBank: NM