textuuri

Textuuri is a conceptual framework used to describe and analyze the structure and organization of written text. It focuses on how text is divided into hierarchical units such as segments, sentences, paragraphs, and sections, and how these units relate to one another to create coherence, flow, and meaning. The term is typically applied in linguistics, natural language processing, and digital humanities to study how information is arranged to support communication, argument, or storytelling.

Key elements of textuuri include the boundaries and roles of textual units, the hierarchical relationships among them, and the discourse relations that connect units (for example, sequencing, contrast, causality, and elaboration). Analysts may annotate texts with metadata such as genre, author, language, and purpose to explore how structure varies across contexts. Textuuri often overlaps with concepts like document structure, discourse analysis, and readability, but it emphasizes the explicit organization of content across multiple levels rather than surface features alone.

Methods used to study textuuri range from manual annotation and qualitative analysis to automated approaches in natural language processing. Techniques may involve segmentation, discourse parsing, topic modeling, and readability assessment, with applications in education, content management, and information retrieval. Limitations include subjectivity in identifying boundaries, cross-linguistic variation in textual organization, and the challenge of modeling long-range coherence in large documents.

See also: discourse analysis, document structure, text segmentation, readability metrics, summarization.