From specialized knowledge frames to linguistically based ontologies Faber Benítez, Pamela Blanchar León Araúz, Pilar Terminology Ontology Frame-based terminology This research was carried out in the framework of the projects, PID2020-118369GB-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and A-HUM-600-UGR20), funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). This paper explains conceptual modeling within the framework of Frame-Based Terminology (Faber, 2012; 2015; 2022), as applied to EcoLexicon (ecolexicon.ugr.es), a specialized knowledge base on the environment (León-Araúz, Reimerink &, Faber, 2019; Faber & León-Araúz, 2021). It describes how a frame-based terminological resource is currently being restructured and reengineered as an initial step towards its formalization and subsequent transformation into an ontology. It also explains how the information in EcoLexicon can be integrated in environmental ontologies such as ENVO (Buttigieg, Morrison, Smith, Mungall & Lewis, 2013; Buttigieg, Pafilis, Lewis, Schildhauer, Walls & Mungall, 2016), particularly at the bottom tiers of the Ontology Learning Layer Cake (Cimiano, 2006; Cimiano, Maedche, Staab & Volker, 2009). The assumption is that frames, as a conceptual modeling tool, and information extracted from corpora can be used to represent the conceptual structure of a specialized domain. 2026-01-23T08:18:23Z 2026-01-23T08:18:23Z 2024-03 journal article Faber, P. and León-Aráuz, P. (2024). From specialized knowledge frames to linguistically based ontologies. Applied Ontology 19 (1), 23–45. https://doi.org/10.3233/AO-230033 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/110121 10.3233/AO-230033 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Sage