Prepare a file to add a multilingual taxonomy - Fluid Topics - 4.3

Fluid Topics Configuration and Administration Guide

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Configuring a multilingual taxonomy consists in following the same steps as for configuring a monolingual taxonomy in a single language and repeating these steps for each additional language as follows:

  1. In row 1 column A, define the language of the content to which the first taxonomy will apply by entering a value for the afs:lang metadata. The value must be composed of an ISO 639-1 language designator in lowercase and an ISO 3166-1 region designator in uppercase, separated by a hyphen.

  2. In row 2 column A, enter a generic term.

  3. Enter synonyms for the generic term in the same row, with one synonym per column.

  4. In row 3, enter a specific term related to the generic term.

  5. Enter synonyms for the specific term in the same row, with one synonym per column.

  6. Continue developing the taxonomy with generic and specific terms and their synonyms.

  7. To add another language, skip at least one line after the first taxonomy, then define the language in column A.

  8. Add the translations of all terms defined for the first language.

The following example shows an example of the file used to define a taxonomy to be applied to a corpus consisting of documents in both American English and French:

afs:lang=en-US
means of transportation means of travel means of locomotion
car automobile
four-wheel drive SUV
convertible
motorcycle motorbike
plane aircraft
fixed-wing
monoplane
biplane
rotorcraft
helicopter
autogyro gyroplane
cyclogyro cyclocopter
afs:lang=fr-FR
moyen de transport moyen de déplacement moyen de locomotion
voiture automobile
4x4 SUV
cabriolet
moto
avion aéroplane
aéronef à voilure fixe
avion monoplan
avion biplan
giravion
hélicoptère
autogire autogyre
cyclogyre cyclocoptère

Fluid Topics does not consider a term's translation to be its synonym. In other words, "plane" in English is a translation of "avion" in French, and the two terms are not synonyms.