Text vectorization is a technique that converts text into numerical vectors that can be used by machine learning models. Text vectorization can use different methods to represent text features, such as word frequency, word order, word meaning, or word context. Some of the common text vectorization methods are:

TF-IDF: TF-IDF (term frequency-inverse document frequency) is a method that assigns a weight to each word based on its frequency in a document and its rarity across a collection of documents. TF-IDF can capture the importance and relevance of words for a given topic or domain, but it does not consider the order or meaning of words.

Word2vec: Word2vec is a method that learns a vector representation for each word based on its context in a large corpus of text. Word2vec can capture the semantic and syntactic similarity and relationships among words, as well as preserve the order of words.

For an English-to-Spanish translation machine, using Word2vec would be appropriate and correctly defined, because in translation machines, we need to consider the order of the words, as well as their meaning and context.