diff --git a/docs/docs/optimization.xml b/docs/docs/optimization.xml
index 64461c133..8bbd0b068 100644
--- a/docs/docs/optimization.xml
+++ b/docs/docs/optimization.xml
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ subject to the following constraint:
                 A structural SVM, on the other hand, can learn to predict outputs as complex
                 as entire parse trees.  To do this, it learns a function F(x,y) which measures 
                 how well a particular data sample x matches a label y.  When used for prediction,
-                the best label for an x is then given by the y which maximizes F(x,y).   
+                the best label for a new x is then given by the y which maximizes F(x,y).   
 
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