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The European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies - a multilingual resource for indexing, retrieval, and translation
Der Europäische Thesaurus Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde - eine multilinguale Quelle für Indexierung, Retrieval und Übersetzung
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Abstract The multilingual European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies (European Thesaurus) is a special subject thesaurus for the field of international affairs. It is intended for use in libraries and documentation centres of academic institutions and international organizations. The Euro... view more
The multilingual European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies (European Thesaurus) is a special subject thesaurus for the field of international affairs. It is intended for use in libraries and documentation centres of academic institutions and international organizations. The European Thesaurus was established in a collaborative project involving a number of leading European research institutes on international politics. It integrates the controlled terminologies of several existing thesauri. The European Thesaurus comprises about 8,200 terms and proper names from the 24 subject areas covered by the thesaurus. Because of its multilinguality, the European Thesaurus can not only be used for indexing, retrieval and terminological reference, but serves also as a translation tool for the languages represented. The establishment of cross-concordances to related thesauri extends the range of application of the European Thesaurus even further. They enable the treatment of semantic heterogeneity within subject gateways. The European Thesaurus is available both in a seven-lingual printversion as well as in an eight-lingual online-version. To reflect the changes in terminology the European Thesaurus is regularly being amended and modified. Further languages are going to be included.... view less
Keywords
international relations; technical language; thesaurus; international politics
Classification
Information and Documentation, Libraries, Archives
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Method
descriptive study
Collection Title
Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
City
Paris
Page/Pages
6 p.
Series
LREC Proceedings
ISBN
2-9517408-4-0
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications