4.2.1 - eXercise

EuroVoc is a multilingual, multidisciplinary thesaurus covering the activities of the EU, the European Parliament in particular. It contains terms in 22 EU languages (Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish), plus Croatian and Serbian.
EuroVoc is managed by the Publications Office, which follows the latest trends in thesaurus standards. EuroVoc users include the European Parliament, the Publications Office, national and regional parliaments in Europe, plus national governments and private users around the world.
Let us exploit this marvellous source of vocabulary to our advantage. Follow the instructions below and create your own termbase:
1. Go to the website of EuroVoc project here.
2. Select a combination of English and Czech terminology by ticking the boxes next to the relevant language codes. Choose alphabetical ordering of words.
3. Press the download button and save the file to a location that you can easily find. Open the file and erase the content of the first column.
4. Title the first column "Client" and type in your surname in all fields of that column. Rename the headers of column 2 and 3 to "Czech" and "English".
5. Open the MultiTerm Convert and follow the on-screen instructions for creating a new termbase from an Excel file (see eXercise 4.2.2).