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 ...

In this article, we have introduced the first parallel corpus of Persian with more than 10 other European languages. This article describes primary steps toward preparing a Basic Language Resources Kit (BLARK) for Persian. Up to now, we have proposed morphosyntactic specification of Persian based on EAGLE/MULTEXT guidelines and specific resources of MULTEXT-East. The article introduces Persian ...

NCI Thesaurus entries reference corresponding nodes in the UMLS Semantic Network (SN). Adapting a process previously used to refine relationship definitions in the UMLS Metathesaurus, we used these Thesaurus-to-Network references to analyze alignment of the Thesaurus with the OBO Relations Ontology and at the same time validate and improve Thesaurus structure. Given this experience, we offer su...