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Literature
	Updated 2011-12-07

Presentations, Books and Reports

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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 the LanguaL thesaurus and related information (including software implementations) contained on this website.

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General Presentations

 LanguaL and Food Indexing with the LanguaL Food Product Indexer

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• Ireland J. & Møller A.:
  Describing a food using LanguaL facets A-Z (2010-02-26).
  
  PDF document in English   Click here to download (9 MB, pdf file)

• Ireland J., Møller A., Nørby, E.:
  Tutorial for the LanguaL Food Product Indexer.
  
  PDF document in English   Click here to download (9 MB)
  PDF document in Spanish  Click here to download (12 MB)

 

LanguaL Reports

LanguaL 2010

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• Møller A., Ireland J.:
  LanguaL 2010 – The LanguaL Thesaurus.
  EuroFIR Nexus Technical Report D1.13. Danish Food Information, 2011.
  
  PDF version of the report      Click here to download (15.1 MB, formatted for duplex printing)
• Møller A., Ireland J.:
  LanguaL 2010 - Multilingual Thesaurus (English – Czech – Danish – French – German – Italian – Portuguese – Spanish)
  EuroFIR Nexus Technical Report D1.13b. Danish Food Information, 2011.
  
  PDF version of the report      Click here to download (9.1 MB, formatted for duplex printing)

LanguaL 2009

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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)

LanguaL 2008

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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 2007

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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 2000

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• Møller A., Ireland J.:
  LanguaL 2000 – The LanguaL thesaurus.
  Report by the COST Action 99 – Eurofoods Working Group on Food Description, Terminology and Nomenclature, Report No. EUR 19540, European Commission, 2000.
  
  Printed version of the report  Click here to order
  PDF version of the report      Click here to download (2.2 MB)
• Møller A., Ireland J.:
  LanguaL 2000 – Introduction to the LanguaL thesaurus.
  Report by the COST Action 99 – Eurofoods Working Group on Food Description, Terminology and Nomenclature, Report No. EUR 19542, European Commission, 2000.
  
  Printed version of the report   Click here to order
  PDF version of the report      Click here to download (2.5 MB)
• Møller A., Ireland J.:
  LanguaL 2000 -  Documentation of changes from Version 0.
  Report by the COST Action 99 – Eurofoods Working Group on Food Description, Terminology and Nomenclature, Report No. EUR 19541, European Commission, 2000.
  Printed version of the report   Click here to order
  PDF version of the report       Click here to download (4 MB)
• Schlotke F., Becker W., Ireland J., Møller A., Ovaskainen M.L., Monspart J., Unwin I.:
  Basic Recommendations for Food Composition Database Management and Interchange.
  Report by the COST Action 99 – Eurofoods Working Group on Food  Data Management and Interchange. Report No. EUR 19538, European Commission, 2000.
  Printed version of the report   Click here to order
  PDF version of the report       Click here to download (12 MB)
• Schlotke F., Møller A.:
  Inventory of European food composition databases and tables.
  Report by the COST Action 99 – Eurofoods Working Group on Food  Data Management and Interchange. Report No. EUR 19539, European Commission, 2000.

These publications are available from

Office for Official Publications of The European Communities, L-2985 Luxembourg.

 

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Articles in books and journals

• Ireland J. & Møller A.:
  LanguaL Food Description: a Learning Process. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition,  64, S44-S48, 2010.
• Ireland J., Møller A.:
  Review of international food classification and description. J. Food Comp. Anal., 13 (4), 529-538, 2000.
• Favier J-C, Ireland-Ripert J., Feinberg M.
  Derivés du manioc, banques de données et système international de codification descriptive LanguaL, in Agbor Egbe T. et al.(eds), Transformation alimentaire du manioc, Editions ORSTOM, Collection Colloques et séminaires, Paris (1995).
• Favier J-C, Ireland-Ripert J., Mourel R-M., Feinberg M.
  Description de la typicité des vins et boissons alcoolisées par le système international de codification Langual; Science des Aliments (1994) 14, 617-625.
• Kaluzny-Pinon L.
  Eurofoods-Enfant project: La codification descriptive des aliments. Process, 1994, 56, N°1091.
• Hendricks T.C.
  LanguaL: An Automated Method for Describing, Capturing and Retrieving Data about Foods. in Simopoulos A.P., Butrum R.R. (eds), International Food Data Bases and Information Exchange, World Rev. Nutr. Diet. Basel, Karger, 1992, vol 68, pp 94-103.
• Pennington, J.A.T. and Hendricks, T.C.
  Proposal for an international interface standard for food databases, Food Additives and Contaminants, 1992, vol. 9, no. 3, 265-275.
• Pennington, J.A.T. and Butrum, R.R.
  Food description - Langual and Taxonomy. Trends in Food Science and Technology, 1991, 2, 285-288.
• Feinberg M., Ireland-Ripert J,. Favier J-C.
  LANGUAL: un langage international pour la description structurée des aliments; Science des Aliments, 1991, 11, 193-214.
• McCann A., Pennington J.A., Smith E.C., Holden J.M., Soergel D., Wiley R.C.
  FDA’s Factored Food Vocabulary for Food Product Description, J. Am. Dietetic Assoc., 1988, 3, 336-341.

 

Conferences and posters

• Ireland J. & Møller A.:
  LANGUAL FOOD DESCRIPTION: UPDATE. 34th National Nutrient Databank Conference, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 12-14 July 2010.
• Ireland J. & Møller A.:
  LanguaL Food Indexing Software. 8th International Food Data Conference. Bangkok (Thailand), 1-3 October 2009.
• Ireland J. & Møller A.:
  Use of Langual to Describe Foods in European Nutrient Databases. 8th International Food Data Conference. Bangkok (Thailand), 1-3 October 2009.
• Ireland J. & Møller A.:
  Indexing Foods in European Food Composition Databases with the LanguaL Food Description Thesaurus. 31st National Nutrient Databank Conference " Turning Concepts into Reality", Washington DC (USA). 27 avril 2007.
• Ireland J., Møller A.:  LanguaL: Recent Developments. Fifth International Food Data Conference , Washington DC (USA), 29 June – 3 July 2003.
• Møller A., Ireland J., Christensen T.:
  Linking Food Composition Data on the Internet – a LanguaL Approach. Fifth International Food Data Conference , Washington DC (USA), 29 June – 3 July 2003.
• Ireland J., Møller A.:
  LanguaL 2000 (poster). Fourth Intermational Food Data Conference, Bratislava, 24-26 August 2001.
• Ireland J., Møller A.:
  Guidelines for food classification and description in food data banks (oral presentation). Third International Food Data Base Conference, Rome, 5-7 July 1999.
• Moreno-Rojas R., Sánchez-Segarra P.J., Gordillo-Otero M.J., Garcia.-Martinez M.:
  A new computerized food composition data base of Spanish dairy products and infant foods mineral compositionusing LanguaL codes (poster). Third International Food Data Base Conference, Rome, 5-7 July 1999.
• Schlotke F.
  Langual - harmonization of different national versions. Report of the European Langual Technical Committee, Institute of Scientific Computing, CH-8092 Zurich, October 1996. (Word 6.0 Document)
• Ireland-Ripert J., Møller A.
  LanguaL: International Organisation. Second International Food Data Base Conference, Lahti (Finland), August 1995, poster.
• Møller A., Ireland-Ripert J.
  Food coding, a summary. DAFNE II Conference, Vienna, May 1995.
• Deary J.
  Report of LanguaL Coding Experiment. FLAIR Concerted Action Programme N°12: Eurofoods-Enfant Project "Improvement of the Quality and Compatibility of Food Consumption and Food Composition Data in Europe ", April 1993.
• FDA/CFSAN. LanguaL User’s Manual, version 1993.
• Favier J-C, Ireland-Ripert J., Feinberg M.
  LanguaL: un langage international de description des aliments, Conference GERM, Balaruc, November 1992.
• Poster presentations at the 2nd International Food Data Base Conference in Lahti, Finland, August 1995 and at a special symposium on food composition data at the 1997 IUNS International Congress of Nutrition in Montreal, Canada. The posters were prepared by J. Ireland-Ripert (CNEVA-CIQUAL France), J. Holden (USDA-ARS-BHNRC, USA), A. Møller (NFA Denmark), F. Schlotke (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), N. Slimani (WHO-IARC, France), I. Varsányi (University of Budapest, Hungary) and J.L. Volatier (CREDOC, France).

 

Other papers

• Minutes of the joint COST Action 99 workshop on food description and data interchange, held in Paris, 7-11 May 1999.
• Report of meeting at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), 15 April 1999, Washington DC, USA.
• Minutes of the COST Action 99 Workshop on Food description, Nomenclature and Terminology, 25 October 1998, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
• Short summary of the meeting on food description/LanguaL, held in Paris, 11-13 September 1998.
• Short summary of the meeting on food description/LanguaL, held in Paris, 15-17 February 1997.
• LanguaL - harmonization of different national versions. Report of the European Langual Technical Committee Meeting, October 1996, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Prepared by Florian Schlotke, Institute of Scientific Computing, CH-8092 Zurich, October 1996. (Word 6.0 Document)
• COST Action 99 Working Group on Food Description, Nomenclature and Terminology - LanguaL Update: Progress report, 18 October 1996, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
• Minutes of the COST Action 99 Workshop on Food description, Nomenclature and Terminology, 21 October 1996, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
• Minutes of the joint meeting of the International Langual Steering Committee and Regional Langual Technical Committees, 30 August 1995, Lahti, Finland.
• Minutes of the COST Action 99 Workshop on Food description, Nomenclature and Terminology, 30 August 1995, Lahti, Finland.

News

LanguaL™ FPI version 3.98 available. 2012-02-01 An updated version of the LanguaL™ Food Product Indexer has been released, see Downloads.

LanguaL™ 2010 published. 2011-12-07 The 2010 version of LanguaL™ has been published. The documentation is available and can be downloaded, see Downloads.

USDA NDB Release 23 LanguaL™ indexed. 2010-11-01 USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference is LanguaL™ indexed. The indexing files are available from the USDA ARS Nutrient Data site.