bistro is a free-access online information system for the research, analysis and translation of terms and texts in Italian, German and Ladin legal and administrative language. 

The system consists of:
 
• Data base: collecting some 50,000 terms pertaining to the Italian legal system (terms in Italian, German and Ladin) as well as the Austrian, Swiss and German federal systems (terms in German language). 
• TerKom on BISTRO: allows access to the German-language terminology approved by the Terminology Commission on the comparative and linguistic basis of research work carried out by collaborators of the research department;
• Bilingual Corpus (CATEx): a collection of Italian-language legislative texts with the corresponding German translations. 
• Trilingual Corpus (CLE): a collection of administrative documents in the Italian, German and Ladin languages.
• Annotation tool: an instrument that automatically connects the contents of a document or webpage loaded onto the bistro platform by the user to the bistro data base and thus allows to access existing possible translations; 
• Term extraction tool: this makes it possible to automatically generate lists of term candidates from within webpages or documents, which can be used as points of departure for comparative terminology researches; 
• Internet search tools: Gymn@zilla (online language exercises), search books by ISBN number, Key-words-in-Context (KWIC) for the search of fixed expressions and collocations.

last update 10.12.2007