what is a veсtor sence of the sentence in phrase?
is that mean a big important sence?
or it mean a some defined sence(actually as is)
or it mean importancy but not too much?
or on the countrary enough of importancy?
"matter of some importance" (English expression)
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Re: matter of some importance
I don't really understand the question. I assume you mean "vector sense" but in the context of languages it doesn't make any sense. Vector tends to be a term more used in Physics or Mathematics. Can you explain the question more.
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Re: matter of some importance
I'm having difficulty understanding the question as well. You're welcome to rephrase it in Russian with more details, if that would help.
rdearman, "vector" makes perfect sense to me in the context of languages, specifically computational linguistics. A word vector is a way to represent a text for further analysis. It converts a document to an array of numbers (sort of a list of word counts), on which you can then perform mathematical operations, , e.g. to compute similarity to other documents likewise represented as arrays of numbers, and find the most relevant matches. See https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/04/21/the ... d-vectors/ for one explanation of word vectors, and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_space_model.
Even assuming that this is the meaning of "vector" that the OP had in mind, I think I still need further explanation of the question. A word vector by itself does not necessarily say anything about the relative importance of words or a sentence. It could be one step toward getting there, though -- see the discussion of tf-idf in the Wikipedia article I cited above. A tf-idf score (term frequency, adjusted by inverse document frequency to discount very common words like "the") is a way to calculate the relative importance of words in a document.
Hope this helps...?
rdearman, "vector" makes perfect sense to me in the context of languages, specifically computational linguistics. A word vector is a way to represent a text for further analysis. It converts a document to an array of numbers (sort of a list of word counts), on which you can then perform mathematical operations, , e.g. to compute similarity to other documents likewise represented as arrays of numbers, and find the most relevant matches. See https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/04/21/the ... d-vectors/ for one explanation of word vectors, and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_space_model.
Even assuming that this is the meaning of "vector" that the OP had in mind, I think I still need further explanation of the question. A word vector by itself does not necessarily say anything about the relative importance of words or a sentence. It could be one step toward getting there, though -- see the discussion of tf-idf in the Wikipedia article I cited above. A tf-idf score (term frequency, adjusted by inverse document frequency to discount very common words like "the") is a way to calculate the relative importance of words in a document.
Hope this helps...?
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Re: matter of some importance
if we see in phrase "matter of some importance"
is that mean:
a big important sence?
or it mean a some defined sence(actually as is)
or it mean importancy but not too much?
or on the countrary enough of importancy?
is that mean:
a big important sence?
or it mean a some defined sence(actually as is)
or it mean importancy but not too much?
or on the countrary enough of importancy?
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Re: matter of some importance
Sounds like it's about the degree of importance that this conveys? like how much does "some importance" mean?
I think it depends on the context, and there may be cultural differences as well. This is a funny example
(In Russian vector can simply mean direction. For example various companies and institutions often speak about their "vector of development")
I think it depends on the context, and there may be cultural differences as well. This is a funny example
(In Russian vector can simply mean direction. For example various companies and institutions often speak about their "vector of development")
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Re: matter of some importance
I agree with others that your first post wasn't super clear but I got the gist of it anyways. That being said, "matter of some importance" means that whatever noun that precedes that is important to some degree. It would be useful if you could provide more context than just that phrase (an entire sentence would be more useful). That said, google is coming to the rescue:
"This strikes me as a matter of some importance." - in that context whatever thing that the person saying that is referring to important.
"A matter of some importance has come to my attention recently." - In this case the writer is saying that something important was brought to their attention. I suspect that whatever it was wasn't of obvious importance prior. That is to say, the other didn't immediately find the issue important.
"...we propose in the following pages to argue that the medieval kingdom of Cilician Armenia was a matter of some importance to Chaucer and his contemporaries." - Again, in this the author(s) is saying that the kingdom of Cilician Armenia was important to Chaucer.
"This strikes me as a matter of some importance." - in that context whatever thing that the person saying that is referring to important.
"A matter of some importance has come to my attention recently." - In this case the writer is saying that something important was brought to their attention. I suspect that whatever it was wasn't of obvious importance prior. That is to say, the other didn't immediately find the issue important.
"...we propose in the following pages to argue that the medieval kingdom of Cilician Armenia was a matter of some importance to Chaucer and his contemporaries." - Again, in this the author(s) is saying that the kingdom of Cilician Armenia was important to Chaucer.
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Re: matter of some importance
Atarion wrote:if we see in phrase "matter of some importance"
is that mean:
a big important sence?
or it mean a some defined sence(actually as is)
or it mean importancy but not too much?
or on the countrary enough of importancy?
I've noted that the British would say "it is a matter of some importance" which would mean it is really very important. This is because the British seem to be the masters of understatement.
However, on occasion it might mean it isn't of much importance. The difference is completely in the context of the sentence. So we'd need to see the entire sentence.
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Re: matter of some importance
aokoye:
so your idea that is: in fact some = something?
here we have something important
so your idea that is: in fact some = something?
here we have something important
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i found a whole phrase:
I want to speak to you about a matter of some importance.
I want to speak to you about a matter of some importance.
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