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"<br />

Exploting a<br />

multilingual database<br />

electricity<br />

Natural language search term: TI=<br />

corrente elettrica<br />

OR elettricità<br />

Strom<br />

OR Elektrizität<br />

573 278 149<br />

1123 1123 1123<br />

electrical<br />

energia<br />

elektrische<br />

energy<br />

elettrica<br />

Energie<br />

EUROVOC descriptor: DC=<br />

the results were not only consistent across the language versions; they also<br />

seemed to be more complete, as the user also avoided the risk of missing<br />

important documents for which the chosen search term simply does not appear<br />

in the title.<br />

Another beneit of the application of the Eurovoc thesaurus, which only at<br />

the irst glimpse appears to be of minor importance to the EUR-Lex user, is that<br />

the intellectual analysis of the content of the document, which is the basis for the<br />

attribution of the descriptors, can be performed independently of the language<br />

that a future user might select for the consultation of the thesaurus when searching<br />

for documents. Consequently the effort spent for that part of the analysis<br />

multiplies per language version in which the thesaurus is available.<br />

the Eurovoc thesaurus aims at overcoming the challenges that EUR-Lex<br />

potentially provides as a multilingual system, by supporting language coverage<br />

as completely as possible for all oficial languages. A different approach is offered<br />

by the classiication of the ‘Directory of Community legislation in force’.<br />

2.2. The classiication of the ‘Directory of Community<br />

legislation in force’<br />

this tool is used to index legislative acts (including the preparatory works)<br />

and provides a numerical classiication system, which comes with 20 headings<br />

at entry level. Each of those is marked by two digits (from 01 to 20). the ‘15’,<br />

for example, represents ‘Environment, consumers and health protection’. Below<br />

the entry level up to three more levels are possible. Overall the classiication<br />

comprises an identical set of 465 (sub-)headings in all — at the time — 20<br />

oficial languages. the numerical structure as such guarantees language independence.<br />

01_2007_5222_txt_ML.indd 64 6-12-2007 15:13:42

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