Lexical collocations are frequently occurring word pairs in natural language whose presence are not always predictable by their usage. These collocations are used by native speakers of a language almost without thought, yet they must be learned by nonnative speakers of the language. A native speaker of English might say that he/she drinks “strong coffee, ” but a nonnative speaker might say either “powerful coffee ” or “sturdy coffee.” Collocations tend to vary among languages and topic domains. Unfortunately, the task of correctly identifyin