sanapohjaista

Sanapohjaista is a Finnish adjective that means based on words, i.e., relying on words as the primary data units. It is used to describe approaches, analyses, or content that treat lexical items as the central elements, rather than focusing on morphology, semantics, or other features. The term is common in linguistics, information retrieval, natural language processing, and language teaching, where distinctions are made between word-based methods and, for example, morphology-based or meaning-based methods.

Etymology and usage notes: sanapohjaista is formed from sana (word) and pohja (base, foundation) with the adjectival suffix -ista, resulting in a form that typically appears with a noun in partitive case, such as sanapohjaista tekstiä or sanapohjainen lähestymistapa. The contrastive pair is often with morphology- or semantics-based approaches, e.g., morfologis-painotteinen or semanttinen.

In practical terms, sanapohjaista analysis might involve tokenization, word frequency counts, collocations, and other techniques that operate on individual words rather than subword units or conceptual meanings. It is commonly invoked in discussions about search systems, corpus linguistics, and language learning methods where emphasis is placed on lexical items and their usage.

See also: sanapohjainen vs. morfologiapainotteinen approaches, lexical analysis, information retrieval, natural language processing. While widely understood in Finnish technical discourse, the term is context-dependent and can be clarified by specifying the exact data units (words) and level of analysis involved.