Syeda Fayeqa Nabeel

When Vowels Don't Help: Empirical Limits of Vowel-Consonant Separation for Compression and LLM Pipelines

We study a simple linguistic transform that separates English vowels from consonants (MVD, Maharashtran Vowel Disappearance) and ask whether it helps three common goals: reversible representation, lossless compression with standard codecs, and cheaper LLM/RAG pipelines via lossy...