Question

select the correct text in the passage. read the excerpt from \a computer can now translate languages as well as a human\ by vanessa bates ramirez. google’s deep learning translation method uses 16 processors to transform words into a value called a vector. the vector represents how related one word is to every other word in the dictionary of training materials. there are 2.5 billion sentence pairs for english and french, and 500 million for english and chinese. which dictionary entry best supports the meaning of the word vector in the excerpt as “a way to compare to other words”? vector || \\ˈvek-tər \\ noun 1. any agent that acts as a carrier or transporter 2. a course or compass direction, especially of an airplane 3. an array of data ordered so that individual items can be located 4. a quantity with the requirement that such quantities obey the law of addition

Explanation:

The excerpt is about Google's translation method using vectors to represent word relationships. We need to find the dictionary entry that matches "vector" in this context. Option 3 says "an array of data ordered so that individual items can be located", which fits how vectors in machine learning (like in translation) are data arrays representing word relationships. Option 1 is about a carrier, Option 2 about direction (like a compass), and Option 4 about a quantity with addition laws (math vector, not the context here). So Option 3 is correct.

Answer:

1. an array of data ordered so that individual items can be located