Lexis / Lexical choice

Definition

Degree to which the output respects the reference semantic co-occurrence restrictions of the target language.

Metrics

Percentage of errors relative to the total number of tokens in the text.

References

Loffler-Laurian 1983.

Notes

Lexical errors arising from words or phrases that are inappropriate (in their collocations, connotations, register or idiomaticity), too general or too specific are also called "diction errors" in (Balkan 1991).