EcoLexicon

Abstract

EcoLexicon (http://ecolexicon.ugr.es) is an environmental knowledge base which is based on the pre-mises of Frame-based Terminology (FBT) (Faber 2009, 2011, 2012). EcoLexicon represents the conceptu-al structure of the specialized domain of the Environment in the form of a visual thesaurus in which environmental concepts are configured in semantic networks. The various terminological designa-tions for a concept are offered in six languages: Spanish, English, German, French, Russian, and Greek. So far, EcoLexicon contains 3,527 concepts and 18,617 terms. It provides conceptual, linguistic, and ad-ministrative information for each entry, and we are now beginning to include phraseological infor-mation for terms as well (Buendía 2013; Buendía & Sánchez 2012, Sánchez & Buendía 2012). EcoLexi-con is designed to meet the needs of different user types, such as a student of science wishing to acquire specialized knowledge about a certain concept, a translator seeking translation correspon-dences in a language, or a specialist interested in text production.