"lexical choice" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} lexical choice (uncountable)
  1. (computational linguistics) The selection of content words in a generated text. Wikipedia link: lexical choice Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Computational linguistics

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