vector space

noun

|Updated on: 10 Jul 2018

Definition of vector space

: a set of vectors along with operations of addition and multiplication such that the set is a commutative group under addition, it includes a multiplicative inverse, and multiplication by scalars is both associative and distributive

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In this approach, words and phrases are mapped onto a geometrical space known as a vector space, which captures degrees of similarity among different words in a corpus (a large collection of texts).

— ben zimmer, The Atlantic, "How Computers Parse the Ambiguity of Everyday Language," 27 June 2018

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