Hard Drugs and Soft Terms: the Challenges of Description

Bailey (now Welsh), Anne (2004) Hard Drugs and Soft Terms: the Challenges of Description. Delivered at Elisad Annual Meeting 2004, Florence, Italy. Presentation.

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Abstract

This paper, delivered as part of the thesaurus workshop on languages of addiction at the Elisad Annual Meeting 2004, highlights the complexities of creating thesauri in the international setting, and the need to translate concepts as opposed to words: words are simple labels for concepts within thesauri.

Keywords:	alcohol and other drugs thesauri, international taxonomy design, international thesaurus construction, principles of international thesaurus construction, thesaurus construction
Subjects:	I. Information treatment for information services > IK. Design, development, implementation and maintenance I. Information treatment for information services > ID. Knowledge representation. I. Information treatment for information services
ID Code:	8721
Deposited By:	Welsh, Anne
Deposited On:	20 February 2007
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