Present and future of the terminological knowledge base EcoLexicon

Summary

EcoLexicon is a multilingual terminological knowledge base on environmental science developed since 2003 by the LexiCon research group at the University of Granada (Spain). It constitutes the practical application of the Frame-based Terminology theory. This article describes how EcoLexicon works and presents its latest developments, including its new corpus and semantic word sketch grammar in English, a revised and improved phraseology module, a flexible terminological definition approach, and conceptual representation through images.