DAUGIAKALBIŲ TEZAURŲ RENGIMAS IR ADAPTAVIMAS: LIETUVOS DUOMENŲ ARCHYVO LiDA ATVEJIS
CONSTRUCTION AND USE OF MULTILINGUAL THESAURI: THE CASE OF THE LiDA LITHUANIAN DATA ARCHIVE

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the construction and use of multilingual linguistic tools – thesauri – in the elec¬tronic environment. The increasing diversity of lan¬guages used in the creation of intellectual product, growing amounts of people using these products and the variety of their cultural backgrounds turn multi¬lingual thesauri into a specific multilingual and mul¬ticultural information retrieval. The article aims to present the experience in con¬structing multilingual humanities and social sci¬ence thesauri in Lithuania. The first one described is the Lithuanian–English thesaurus used in the Lithuanian data archive (LiDA). The main issue was to choose a proper method for creating the multilingual thesauri and then to analyse the the¬sauri existing in the field before selecting the most suitable one, namely the HASSET, to be used as a source dictionary. The article depicts the specific features of the constructed thesaurus, its use and maintenance. The design and construction of the Lithuanian version of the multilingual and multicultural ELSSTthesaurus is based on an analysis of the specific features of this thesaurus, the experience of its con¬structors and the general principles applied, such as cultural neutrality, equal treatment of all language versions, conceptual mapping, and adapting the terms for use in another language version.

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