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A Vector Represents a Discrete Symbol as a List of Numbers

A vector is an ordered list of numbers that stands in for something a computer cannot otherwise compare or do arithmetic on - a word, a symbol, an id. Covers what the entries of a vector mean, why a lookup table can map an integer id to a fixed-length row of numbers, and why nearness between two vectors is a meaningful statement about the things they represent.

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Word Embeddings in NLP: Vector Representations and Transformer Contextualization

Word embeddings represent lexical items as continuous numeric vectors within a high-dimensional space to encode semantic relationships and contextual information that standard machine learning algori…