Chapter 16
Frame-based Terminology

Pamela Faber | University of Granada

This chapter develops the theoretical premises and the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic microtheories underlying Frame-Based Terminology and the organization of specialized knowledge. It also explains how these premises have been implemented to formulate terminological definitions, model specialized knowledge concepts, create semantic networks, and design specialized knowledge resources. Conceptual modeling in knowledge resource design should capture both the micro- and macrocontexts of concepts. This not only means structuring individual term entries but also capturing the relationships between them. These relations reveal the most frequent combinations and activations of specialized knowledge units, which are indicative of some type of large-scale knowledge structure in which individual concepts are meaningfully related to each other.

Keywords: Frame-Based Terminology, knowledge representation, conceptual modeling, knowledge resource design, terminological definition, semantic network

Article outline

1.Introduction
2.Frames in Frame-based Terminology (FBT)
- 2.1Frames in the mind and brain
- 2.2Frames in general language
- 2.3Frames in Terminology
3.Microtheories in Frame-based Terminology
- 3.1Semantic microtheory
  - 3.1.1Classification of concepts
  - 3.1.2Concept description
  - 3.1.3Specifying semantic relations
    - 3.1.3.1Automatic retrieval
    - 3.1.3.2Knowledge-rich contexts and sketch grammars
    - 3.1.3.3The EcoLexicon corpus
- 3.2Syntactic microtheory
- 3.3Pragmatic microtheory
  - 3.3.1Linguistic contexts
  - 3.3.2Cultural contexts
    - 3.3.2.1Parameters of terminological variation
    - 3.3.2.2Cultural profiles or semplates
- 3.4Graphical contexts
4.Conclusions

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https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.23.16fab

Chapter 16Frame-based Terminology

Chapter 16
Frame-based Terminology