European Country of Origin Network: new search feature

• From: "HURIDOCS" <info@huridocs.org>

  Subject: European Country of Origin Network: new search feature

  Date: 2008-02-15 14:19

  Sommaire en français Le Réseau Européen d'Information sur les Pays d'Origine
  (www.ecoi.net) fournit une information mise à jour sur les pays d'origine
  des réfugiés. ECOI dispose d’une vaste base de données en anglais avec des
  termes liés en allemand.  Le moteur de recherche fournit des résultats
  significatifs grâce à un thésaurus de termes spécifiques, permettant la
  réalisation de recherches bilingues et l'incorporation de termes liés.
  
   
  
  Resumen en español La Red Europea de Información sobre Países de Origen
  (www.ecoi.net) proporciona información actualizada sobre los países de
  procedencia de los refugiados. ECOI cuenta con una amplia base de datos en
  inglés con términos relacionados en alemán. Cuenta además con un motor de
  búsqueda que proporciona resultados relevantes gracias a la incorporación de
  un tesauro de términos específicos, que permite la realización de búsquedas
  bilingües y la incorporación de términos relacionados.
  
   
  
   
  
  The European Country of Origin Network ECOI.NET www.ecoi.net provides
  up-to-date and publicly available country of origin information with a
  special focus on the needs of asylum lawyers, refugee counsels and persons
  deciding on claims for asylum and other forms of international protection.
  Access to information is facilitated by a comprehensive search tool and
  Topics & Issues files, offering thematically structured information on
  asylum-relevant topics and issues for a set of focus countries.
  
  
  ECOI.NETs new search feature improves relevance of results. It now considers
  documents containing English and German terms related to your search terms.
  This will improve the number of relevant results. This has been made
  possible by linking a thesaurus to our search engine.
  
  
  In cooperation with the Center for Translation Studies at the University of
  Vienna   we have started
  developing a bi-lingual thesaurus covering COI specific terminology. Our
  main motivation is to improve access to information through our search
  engine.
  
  
  Bi-lingual Searches
  
  
  One of the main challenges of retrieving information is to overcome language
  barriers. The great majority of documents featured on ECOI.NET is in
  English, around 20 percent of the information is in German. By linking the
  bi-lingual thesaurus to our search engine related terms in the other
  language will also be included in your search query (if they are contained
  in the thesaurus).
  
  Example: A search query for IDPs will also include equivalent German terms.
  Therefore the search engine will also find documents containing the German
  terms Binnenvertriebene, Binnenflüchtlinge or intern Vertriebene.
  
  
  Inclusion of Related Terms
  
  
  Often different terms are used to describe the same. Therefore synonyms and
  different spellings of terms contained in our thesaurus will be included in
  your search query.
  
  Example: A search query for female genital cutting will include related
  English terms. Therefore the search engine will also find documents
  containing the terms FGM, female genital mutilation or female circumcision.
  
  You may switch this feature off by deselecting the inclusion of related
  terms under the advanced search options.
  
  Contact us   for clarifications or
  feedback on this new search feature.
  
  
  Credits
  
  
  We would like to thank the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in
  Germany and the Federal Office for Migration in Switzerland for their
  valuable input on structure and terms for our thesaurus. The International
  Thesaurus of Refugee Terminology of UNHCR and FMO as well as the HURIDOCS
  Micro-thesauri were of great help in identifying relevant terms to be
  contained in our thesaurus.
  
   
  
   
  
  
  

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