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The LanguaL Food Product Indexer software and the LanguaL Thesaurus is provided to you free of charge.

 

Every precaution has been taken in the preparation of the LanguaL thesaurus, its accompanying information, and the LanguaL website.

However, neither the LanguaL community, any single person or organisation assume any responsibility for errors, omissions, or for damages that may result from the use of information (including software implementations) contained on this website. Similarly, the LanguaL community undertakes no responsibility of the presented data and the following use thereof, including use in software and link from other web sites. The LanguaL community accepts no responsibility with regard to such problems incurred as a result of using this information or any linked external sites. Likewise, the LanguaL Community undertakes no liability to pay any damages, neither direct nor indirect losses, e.g. loss of profit.

 

All texts and all graphics in the software and database are protected by the European national laws on intellectual rights in force and the EC Directive 2001/29 on Copyright in the Information Society of 22 May 2001.

 

LanguaL 2009

LanguaL 2009 documentation

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• Møller A., Ireland J.:
  LanguaL 2009 – The LanguaL thesaurus.
  EuroFIR Technical Report D1.8.43. Danish Food Information, 2009.
  
  PDF version of the report      Click here to download (3.6 MB, formatted for duplex printing)
• Møller A., Ireland J.:
  LanguaL 2009 - Changes from version 2008.
  EuroFIR Technical Report D1.8.43. Danish Food Information, 2009.
  
  PDF version of the report      Click here to download (1.7 MB, formatted for duplex printing)

 

Posters 8th International Food Data Conference

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• Ireland J., Møller A.:
  Use of LanguaL to describe foods in European nutrient databases.
  
  PDF version of the poster      Click here to download (1.5 MB)
• Ireland J., Møller A.:
  LanguaL food indexing software.
  
  PDF version of the poster      Click here to download (0.7 MB)

 

LanguaL 2008

LanguaL 2008 documentation

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• Møller A., Ireland J.:
  LanguaL 2008 – Introduction.
  EuroFIR Technical Report D1.8.21a. Danish Food Information, 2008.
  
  PDF version of the report      Click here to download (5 MB, formatted for duplex printing)
• Møller A., Ireland J.:
  LanguaL 2008 – The LanguaL thesaurus.
  EuroFIR Technical Report D1.8.21b. Danish Food Information, 2008.
  
  PDF version of the report      Click here to download (6.5 MB, formatted for duplex printing)
• Møller A., Ireland J.:
  LanguaL 2008 - Changes from version 2007.
  EuroFIR Technical Report D1.8.21c. Danish Food Information, 2008.
  
  PDF version of the report      Click here to download (5.16 MB, formatted for duplex printing)
• Møller A., Bøgh-Sørensen, L. and Ireland J.:
  LanguaL 2008 - Multilingual Thesaurus (English – Danish – French – German – Italian – Spanish).
  EuroFIR Technical Report D1.8.21d. Danish Food Information, 2008.
  
  PDF version of the report      Click here to download (5.44 MB, formatted for duplex printing)

 

LanguaL 2008 electronic files

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• LanguaL 2008 alpha-numerical display    Click here to download  (172 kB, tab delimited text file)
• LanguaL 2008 thesaurus tree structure    Click here to download  (211 kB, tab delimited text file)
• LanguaL 2008 thesaurus master             Click here to download  (920 MB, tab delimited text file)
• LanguaL 2008 thesaurus - XML               Click here to download  (2.1 MB, xml file)
   

 

LanguaL Food Product Indexer, version 3.91, and the LanguaL 2008 Thesaurus

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The LanguaL Food Product Indexer, version 3.91, with the LanguaL 2008 Thesaurus can be downloaded here.  

• The LanguaL Food Product Indexer software (October 2008) including the LanguaL 2008 thesaurus database.
  Right click here to download (12 MB) the zipped file and save the file (choose "Save Target As..." in Internet Explorer, "Save Link As..." in FireFox, ...) in a new directory on a hard or flash drive, and unzip the files in the same directory.
  The LanguaL Food Product Indexer is now ready for use by clicking the LanguaL.exe file.
   
• The tutorial for the LanguaL Food Product Indexer is available in English (9 MB, pdf file) and Spanish (12 MB, pdf file). The tutorial contains information about the installation and use of the LanguaL Food Product Indexer software.
  
• Links to already indexed foods
  - on the LanguaL site (bottom of page)
  - on the EuroFIR Technical Website

 

LanguaL 2007

LanguaL 2007 documentation

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• Møller A., Ireland J.:
  LanguaL 2007 – The LanguaL thesaurus.
  EuroFIR Technical Report. Danish Food Information, 2007.
  
  PDF version of the report      Click here to download (6 MB)
• Møller A., Ireland J.:
  LanguaL 2007 - Documentation of changes from version 2000.
  EuroFIR Technical Report. Danish Food Information, 2007.
  
  PDF version of the report      Click here to download (5 MB)
• Møller A., Bøgh-Sørensen, L. and Ireland J.:
  LanguaL 2007 - Multilingual Thesaurus (en-da-fr).
  EuroFIR Technical Report. Danish Food Information, 2007.
  
  PDF version of the report      Click here to download (5 MB)

 

LanguaL 2007 electronic files

• LanguaL 2007 alpha-numerical display     Click here to download  (143 kB, tab delimited text file)
• LanguaL 2007 thesaurus tree structure     Click here to download  (178 kB, text file)
• LanguaL 2007 thesaurus - XML                Click here to download  (2.4 MB, xml file)
   

 

LanguaL Indexed Datasets (indexed by US FDA before 1995)  -  currently being updated

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• FLAPS (Food Labeling and Package Survey) 1986  -  1490 foods
• FLAPS (Food Labeling and Package Survey) 1988  -  1265 foods
• FLAPS (Food Labeling and Package Survey) 1991  -  1194 foods
• IFAD (International Food Additives Database)  -  2919 foods
• SIREN (Scientific Information Retrieval and Exchange Network)  -  7379 foods
• Total Diet Study
• Total Diet Study 1990
• Carotenoid Foods file (Agricultural Research Service) - 691 foods indexed for USDA
• USDA Nationwide Food Consumption Survey 1977 - 4457 foods indexed for USDA
• USDA Nationwide Food Consumption Survey 1988 - 6307 foods indexed for USDA
• USDA USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (Handbook-8) - 5137 foods indexed for USDA
• Berkeley (Univ. of California) foods  -  222 food indexed for UC Berkeley
• Codex Alimentarius food names - 280 foods indexed for FAO/WHO
• French foods  - 1219 foods indexed by CIQUAL, Paris
• Greek foods - 858 foods indexed for University of Athens
• New Zealand foods - 177 foods indexed for  Univ. Sydney, NSW
• WHO/GEMS foods (World Health Organization/Global Environmental Monitoring System) - 1250 foods indexed for WHO, Geneva

 

 

 

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LanguaL is supported by the EuroFIR Consortium under the EU 6th Framework Food Quality and Safety Programme (Contract No. FP6-513944).
This web site is hosted by Danish Food Information. Updated 2010-05-16.