tekstitasoinen

tekstitasoinen is a Finnish term that translates to "text-level" or "textual level" in English. It is often used in linguistics and computational linguistics to refer to analysis or processing that operates directly on the raw text of a document, rather than on higher-level representations such as meaning or structure. This can include tasks like identifying individual words, characters, or sequences of characters within the text.

In the context of natural language processing, text-level analysis might involve tokenization, which is the process of breaking down text into smaller units called tokens, typically words or punctuation marks. Other text-level operations could include stemming, which reduces words to their root form, or lemmatization, which reduces words to their dictionary form. These processes are fundamental steps in many language processing pipelines, enabling further analysis and understanding of the text.

The concept of text-level processing is distinct from semantic or pragmatic analysis, which aim to understand the meaning and context of the text. While text-level operations provide the raw material for these higher-level analyses, they themselves focus on the surface form of the language. For example, recognizing the word "running" is a text-level task, whereas understanding that "running" in a particular sentence refers to physical activity is a semantic task.