Devising and using multilingual systems of classification

Abstract

The international exchange of information in science and technology requires methodical aids in form of bilingual or multilingual thesauri for storage, retrieval and dissemination of information processed in multi-lateral shared labour. Techniques of elaboration of multilingual thesauri require the determination of classes of concept equivalencies. Terms of the component languages explaining the conceptual content of these classes may be chosen as deseriptors of the multilingual thesaurus.