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As Figure 2 shows, conceptual information in EcoLexicon is reflected
in three ways. Firstly, the dynamic network displays the search
concept/term (VOLCANO), and links it to all related items in terms of a
closed inventory of conceptual relations. In the lower left corner of the
map, there is a text box that enables users to identify the three categories
of conceptual relations in EcoLexicon: (i) hyponymic (generic-specific)
relations; (ii) meronymic (part-whole) relations; (iii) non-hierarchical
relations. For example, the graphical representation in Figure 2 shows that
a VOLCANO is_a_type_of LANDFORM made_of MAGMA that causes
ERUPTION or VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE. In addition, the terminographic
definition of the concept (on the side bar) encodes the most basic
conceptual relations in the category template.
Secondly, the knowledge base includes resources (on the side bar) in
the form of pictorial representations of the concept, such as images,
documents, URLs, audiovisual materials, etc. associated with each
concept/term.
Finally, the conceptual categories activated by the concept (on the side
bar) give access to the classes of the ontology to which the search concept
belongs. For example, thanks to this ontology, the user learns that a
VOLCANO can be conceptualized as a GEOLOGICAL AGENT that initiates a
PROCESS.
Linguistic information is included in the Terms section of the side bar
on the left. As previously mentioned, the associated terms designating the
concept in the six languages contained in EcoLexicon are offered. By
clicking on each term, a new window is displayed which provides users
with the following linguistic information: (i) language; (ii) term type (main
term, synonym, geographical variant, and acronym); (iii) part of speech
(noun, verb, adjective or adverb); (iv) concordances; (v) a phraseological
section; (vi) a complete phraseological entry.
Phraseology in FBT
Phraseological information in EcoLexicon can be accessed either via the
section Phraseology (Figure 2) or by clicking on each term entry in the
section Terms. To date, the focus is on verb collocations since verbs are
the most important lexical and syntactic category of language (Fellbaum
1990: 278). Moreover, there are still few terminographic resources which
account for verb entries and those that do include verb information within
their lemmas sometimes lack of systematicity (Montero and Buendía
2012).