Write sentences that use words from a general dictionary.

One might have expected even more thorough coverage in a general dictionary.

Presume your word lover already has a general dictionary propped up on its stand.

In a general dictionary, each word may have multiple meanings.

The domain-specific dictionary appears to perform slightly better than the general dictionary.

The collocations so formed are therefore representative of such financial material and hence will be more specific than those from the general dictionary.

However, for 8 of the 15 documents, the general dictionary is more effective (by as much as 11.9% in one case).

In fact, for many domains the general dictionary outperformed the specific.

Furthermore, there were other reasons why a general dictionary was to be preferred over the domain-specific dictionaries.

Across the 15 domains they show a standard deviation of 9.95%, as compared to 5.95% for the general dictionary.