Tekstidatalla

Tekstidatalla is a Finnish term that appears mainly in information technology and data science discussions. It is not a widely standardized technical concept with a formal Finnish definition, but it is commonly used to refer to activities, contexts, or systems that deal specifically with text data. The word is built from teksti (text) + data (data) with the adessive suffix -lla, yielding a sense of “on text data” or “in the domain of text data.”

In practical terms, tekstidatalla can designate data processing pipelines that operate on textual content—such as data collection, cleaning, annotation, tokenization, or natural language processing workflows—as distinct from processes applied to numerical or structured data. It may appear in project descriptions, documentation, or academic writings to mark the focus on text rather than other data types.

Because it is not a formal standard term, its exact meaning depends on the author and context. Some texts may use it loosely to contrast text data with other forms of data, while others may treat it as a shorthand for a text-dominated data layer or repository.

Related concepts include text mining, natural language processing, corpus linguistics, and metadata management of textual resources.