Central and Eastern European Survey

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Type of Organisation: public
Number of Employees: Less than 10
Activities developed: Research, Education Terminology and Conceptual Database.

Since 1984, the Electrotechnical Chair of the POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest has been the first partner of the Thesaurus Working Group of the Romanian National Committee for the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). The second partner of the Thesaurus Working Group is the Research Institute for Electrical Engineering (ICPE) from Bucharest. The Thesaurus Working Group is dealing with the elaboration of the IEC standardized terminology multilingual concept thesaurus, having as source the IEC publications: vocabularies, standards, recommendations, reports, specifications etc. First of all, the elaboration of the IEC Thesaurus follows the third edition of the domain-oriented chapters of the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEC symbol 50(***)) edited about 20 years ago by the IEC - and not completely issued yet - in the field of Electricity, Electronics, Telecommunication and Information Technology. The first anticipated French edition of the IEC Thesaurus was issued in Geneva, in 1986. In 1989 a second English-French version of the IEC Thesaurus was ready for publication. Since 1990, the IEC Thesaurus has been entirely transformed, as a conceptual relational database could be presented in many languages. At the end of 1995, the IEC Thesaurus contained over 30 000 concepts, more than 110 000 binary relations between concepts (language-free files), and about 33 000 terms (descriptors, synonyms, non-recommended synonyms, abbreviations etc.) in any of the already implemented languages: English, French and Romanian. An original software for the exploitation and update of the database is available. In February 1997 the Thesaurus Working Group published a dictionary of standardized electrotechnical terminology. Here are its coordinates: National Romanian Committee for International Electrotechnical Commission (NRC- IEC), University "Politehnica" of Bucharest (UPB), Research Institute for Electrical Engineering (ICPE) - English-Romanian & Romanian-English Dictionary of Standardized Electrotechnical Terminology - Technical Publishing House, Bucharest, 1996. The Thesaurus Working Group has been working in the frame of an INCO- COPERNICUS international joint project called LANGELEC, the other partners being linguists from France, Germany, Poland and Russia.

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