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Text corpus

A text corpus (plural corpora) is a large, machine-readable, principled sample of texts representing a language variety for linguistic research; distinct from text archives and web scrapes, defined by sampling, representativeness, and annotation, from the Brown Corpus to GPT-3's 410-billion-token web data.

Text editor

A text editor, also known as a plaintext editor, is a program for creating and changing plain text files, distinct from word processors, which produce formatted documents.

Text Encoding Initiative

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a community-developed standard of XML guidelines for encoding texts in the humanities, maintained since 2000 by the TEI Consortium.

Text file

A text file, or text document, is a computer file storing a sequence of characters, encoded as ASCII or UTF-8 and readable by any text editor.

Text Generation Inference (TGI)

Text Generation Inference (TGI) is a Hugging Face server for large language models, first released in 2022 as the first high-throughput serving framework for transformer models and archived in 2026.

Text messaging

Text messaging, also known as texting, is the exchange of short written messages between mobile phones, originally over SMS; the first message was sent in 1992.

Text mining

Text mining, also known as text analytics, is the computational analysis of naturally occurring text to discover semantic information, patterns, and trends not stated explicitly in any single document.

Text network analysis

Text network analysis is a bibliometric method representing words or documents as network nodes linked by co-occurrence, so clustering and visualization can map and classify textual content; co-word analysis dates to 1983.

Text segmentation

Text segmentation is a natural language processing method that divides running text into units such as words, sentences, or topical passages, supporting summarization and passage retrieval.

Text simplification

Text simplification is a natural language processing method that automatically rewrites text to make it easier to read, replacing difficult words and splitting long sentences while preserving meaning.

Text types

Text types are abstract linguistic categories characterizing a text's dominant structure, such as narrative, description, and argument, distinguished from genre, which classifies whole texts by external purpose; key frameworks include Biber's, Kinneavy's, and Werlich's typologies.

text-generation-webui

text-generation-webui, renamed TextGen in April 2026, is a free, open-source Gradio web interface for running local large language models on your own hardware, created by oobabooga in 2022.

Text-mined dataset of inorganic materials synthesis recipes

An open database of 19,488 automatically extracted codified recipes for solid-state inorganic synthesis, published by Kononova, Huo, and Ceder at UC Berkeley in October 2019.

Text-to-audio and music generation methods

Text-to-audio and music generation methods are foundation-model techniques that turn a written prompt into sound effects, ambient audio, or structured music, exemplified by AudioLDM and MusicLM.

Text-to-image generation

Text-to-image generation is a machine learning method that produces an image from a natural-language prompt, using diffusion models or autoregressive transformers, beginning with Reed's 2016 GAN and DALL-E in 2021.

Text-to-SQL

Text-to-SQL: translating natural language questions into SQL queries valid for a database schema; also called text2SQL or NL-to-SQL. Covers schema linking, Spider/BIRD benchmarks, execution accuracy, and LLM-era enterprise systems.

TextBlob

TextBlob is an open-source Python library for common natural language processing tasks, including sentiment analysis, part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase extraction, classification, and spelling correction, first released in 2013.

Textbook

Textbook: a standardized print or digital book that sequences a subject for systematic teaching. Covers its history from ancient Greece and the 1474 Leuven printed textbook, U.S. price trends, digital shift, and open educational resources like OpenStax.

Textbooks Are All You Need (phi data recipe)

Textbooks Are All You Need is Microsoft Research's 2023 data recipe behind the phi model family, training small models on filtered web data plus synthetic textbooks and exercises.

Textile

Textile: any flexible material of interlaced natural or artificial fibers, also called cloth or fabric. Spun into yarn, formed by weaving, knitting, braiding, or nonwoven bonding; polyester overtook cotton as the leading fiber in the late 1990s.

Textile and clothing contact dermatitis

Textile and clothing contact dermatitis is eczema caused by clothing, footwear, or household textiles, usually from allergy to disperse dyes and formaldehyde resins rather than the fibers.

Textile and clothing unions in Australia and New Zealand

Textile and clothing unions in Australia and New Zealand organized garment workers from the 1880s, ending in the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia, formed in 1992.

Textile and garment unions in China and Hong Kong

Textile and garment unions in China and Hong Kong are dominated by the state-run ACFTU on the mainland, while Hong Kong unions have narrowed sharply since the 2020 National Security Law.

Textile and garment unions in Japan and Korea

Textile and garment unions in Japan and South Korea represent spinning, weaving, and apparel workers; Japanese unionism is company-based, while Korean unionism drove the militant democratic labor movement.

Textile design

Textile design creates designs and products for woven, knitted, stitched, printed, or decorative textiles, spanning surface pattern and fabric structure. Key facts: AQA definition, Jacquard punch-card looms, women's entry into design, AI and e-textile frontiers.

Textile documentation and digitization projects

Textile documentation and digitization projects are systematic efforts to record and digitize textile heritage, combining object metadata, technical analysis, and imagery, from EU programs to community projects.

Textile industry

Textile industry: production of yarns and fabrics from natural and synthetic fibers. Also called the 'first industry'; spans spinning, weaving, wet processing, technical textiles; led the Industrial Revolution; employs over 75 million people globally.

Textile industry in Bangladesh

The textile industry in Bangladesh, centered on ready-made garments, is the world's second-largest garment exporter after China, earning about $38 billion and employing roughly 4 million workers, mostly women.

Textile industry in India

The textile industry in India, one of the country's oldest manufacturing sectors, spans fibre to garments, employs over 45 million directly, contributes about 2% of GDP, and is the world's sixth-largest textile exporter with a USD 100 billion export target by 2030.

Textile manufacturing

Textile manufacturing converts raw natural or synthetic fiber into yarn, fabric, and finished goods through spinning, weaving or knitting, dyeing, and finishing; a major global employer and a source of 5-10% of greenhouse gas emissions.