Existing classification schemes and thesauri are lacking in well-defined semantics and structural consistency. Empowering end users in searching collections of ever increasing magnitudes with performance far exceeding plain free-text searching (as used in many Web search engines), and developing systems that not only find but also process information for action, ...

FAO’s agricultural thesaurus, Agrovoc, is now online in Czech in addition to the existing Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese versions. Agrovoc is used throughout FAO’s Web pages to help locate subject-specific information and is particularly relevant to indexers, librarians and translators working in the global food and ...