An encyclopedic and ontological dictionary: the field of transnational migration

Abstract

Abstract: This contribution aims to describe a method of production, organization and exploitation of knowledge allowing the combination in a multilingual terminological work of an encyclopedia and ontology. We chose the domain of TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION to illustrate the methodology. In the era of globalization, the phenomenon of transnational migration has reached huge proportions: out of the 240 million persons living outside their origin country, close to 120 million would be migrant workers. Such displacements of workers, most of them from countries with labour surplus to countries with labour shortages, have led to new forms of exploitation, causing economic, social, legal and human problems. Labour and social regulations dramatically show inadequacies in solving such problems.

The second purpose of this contribution is to present the results of our

research in this field. The article MIGRANT WORKER is here to illustrate how

information provided by founding documents is extracted and managed in

a relational database where each entity refers to another according to the

logic of ontology by identified semantic relations. A terminological knowledge

base is the end product of this research