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oftheworldatthe startofthe21
st
Century
also contains territories such as the island
of Taiwan, the Cook Islands, Abkhazia, Palestine, etc. (Figure 11.4).
Figure11.4.
Thestandardizedexpressionsdenotingthecountriesoftheworldandmakingup
thefacet“Allthecountriesoftheworld(startof2000)”
If the inclusion of countries not officially recognized by the UN poses a problem
for a particular community of analysts, it can of course be replaced with a list of the
194 countries recognized by the UN, this time brought together under the facet
The
194countriesofficiallyrecognizedbytheUN
.
For a concrete description, we can use either of the two facets, or indeed a
combination of the two (a combination of the two facets, in this particular case,
means a micro-thesaurus which is formally identical to one organized on the basis of
the facet
All the countries of the world at the start of the 21
st
Century
but in which
those territories not officially recognized by the UN are marked as such).
Of course, a standardized expression representing a possible value of a
conceptual term in the ASW meta-lexicon may belong to different facets. This
means that a standardized expression may have different meanings depending on
whether it is used in this-or-that micro-thesaurus and for this-or-that specific
analysis.
