Relating to or involving collocation; describing patterns of how words naturally occur together.
Collocation + -al suffix. A linguistic term that became standard in corpus linguistics and language teaching in the late 20th century.
Modern AI language models are trained by analyzing billions of collocational patterns—they predict the next word partly because they've learned which word combinations are statistically most likely to follow each other.
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