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Terminology and e-dictionaries
Edited by Amparo Alcina, Rute Costa and Christophe Roche
[Terminology 25:2] 2019
► pp. 222–258

EcoLexicon and by-products

Integrating and reusing terminological resources

| University of Granada
| University of Granada
| University of Granada

Reutilization and interoperability are major issues in the fields of knowledge representation and extraction, as reflected in initiatives such as the Semantic Web and the Linked Open Data Cloud. This paper shows how terminological resources can be integrated and reused within different types of application. EcoLexicon is a multilingual terminological knowledge base (TKB) on environmental science that integrates conceptual, linguistic and visual information. It has led to the following by-products: (i) the EcoLexicon English Corpus; (ii) EcoLexiCAT, a terminology-enhanced translation tool; and (iii) Manzanilla, an image annotation tool. This paper explains EcoLexicon and its by-products, and shows how the latter exploit and enhance the data in the TKB.

Keywords: interoperability, terminological knowledge base, specialized corpus, CAT tool, image annotation
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.EcoLexicon and Frame-based Terminology
    • 2.1User interface
    • 2.2Definitions
    • 2.3Images
    • 2.4Information filtering and recontextualization
    • 2.5Access to corpus
  • 3.EcoLexicon English corpus: An open corpus in Sketch Engine
    • 3.1Word sketches and sketch diff
    • 3.2Text types and CQL queries
  • 4.EcoLexiCAT: A terminology-enhanced CAT tool
    • 4.1EcoLexiCAT features
      • 4.1.1The EcoLexicon and BabelNet boxes
      • 4.1.2The Sketch Engine box
      • 4.1.3The IATE box and other resources
      • 4.1.4Editing log and revision panel
    • 4.2EcoLexiCAT evaluation: A pilot study
  • 5.Manzanilla: An image annotation tool
  • 6.Conclusions and future work
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • Online sources
Published online: 26 November 2019
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