Langua aLimentaria Thesaurus

Langual stands for "langua alimentaria" or "language of food". it is an automated method for describing, capturing and retrieving data about food. the work on langual was started in the late 1970's by the center for food safety and applied nutrition (cfsan) of the united states food and drug administration as an ongoing co-operative effort of specialists in food technology, information science and nutrition. the thesaurus provides a standardized language for describing foods, specifically for classifying food products for information retrieval. langual is based on the concept that: - any food (or food product) can be systematically described by a combination of characteristics - these characteristics can be categorized into viewpoints and coded for computer processing - the resulting viewpoint/characteristic codes can be used to retrieve data about the food from external databases

Langual，意指‘langua alimentaria’或‘食物的语言’，是一种用于描述、捕捉和检索食物数据的自动化方法。Langual的研究始于20世纪70年代末，由美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）下的食品安全与营养应用中心（CFSAN）发起，旨在食品技术、信息科学和营养领域专家的持续协作努力中开展。该术语库提供了一种标准化的语言，用于描述食物，特别是用于对食品产品进行分类以实现信息检索。Langual基于以下概念：- 任何食物（或食品产品）均可通过一系列特征的组合进行系统描述；- 这些特征可以按视角分类，并编码以供计算机处理；- 生成的视角/特征代码可用于从外部数据库中检索关于食物的数据。