Occurwith

Occurwith is a term used in linguistics, data analysis, and software nomenclature to denote that two events, entities, or phenomena occur together within a specified context. It is often treated as a binary relation indicating co-occurrence within a defined window of time, space, or observational units. The term is typically written as occurwith or occur-with, depending on authorial style.

Etymology and scope. Occurwith is a portmanteau of occur and with and has emerged in scholarly and technical writing to provide a compact way to express joint occurrence without implying causality. In corpora, databases, and event models, occurwith statements describe the tendency of items to appear simultaneously or in close proximity.

Usage. In corpus linguistics, researchers may measure how often a target item occurwith a set of neighboring items within a specified token window. In time-series or event data, OccurWith(x, y) is true when x and y appear within the same temporal or spatial window. In software contexts, functions or methods named occurWith may take two inputs and return a boolean indicating the presence of co-occurrence in the data, often with an adjustable window parameter.

Relation to similar concepts. Occurwith is closely related to co-occurrence and co-occur, but is sometimes preferred for naming in data schemas, query languages, or algorithm implementations where a precise binary relation is useful. It is important to distinguish co-occurrence from causality or correlation, as occurwith merely signals simultaneous presence within a context.

See also. Co-occurrence, co-occur, adjacency, association, temporal window, binary relation.