Usagesisältävät

Usagesisältävät is a concept used in linguistics and digital lexicography to describe data items or datasets that embed usage information directly into the lexical entry. A usagesisältävä entry typically links a lemma to a range of usage data, including authentic example sentences, frequency statistics, collocations, grammatical frames, and pragmatic notes, all within a single record. This integration supports analysis of how words are actually used across contexts and facilitates retrieval of usage information for researchers and language learners.

The term is formed from Finnish elements related to use and containment, and is commonly encountered in Finnish-language discussions of language resources and NLP datasets. It describes a design principle rather than a single product, applicable to dictionaries, corpora interfaces, and annotation schemes that aim to foreground usage data alongside forms and meanings.

Typical usagesisältävät records include: lemma, part of speech, senses or meanings, frequency or dispersion metrics derived from corpora, contextualized examples, collocations, syntactic frames, and notes on register or pragmatics. Some implementations also attach cross-linguistic mappings and usage guidance for learners or annotators.

Applications span lexicography, language education, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics. Proponents argue that embedding usage data improves transparency and supports data-driven teaching, while critics caution about data size, quality control, and interoperability across platforms. Standardization efforts focus on metadata schemas and stable identifiers to ensure comparability between usagesisältävä entries.