Consonant is all you need: a compact representation of English text for efficient NLP

Maged S. Al-Shaibani; Irfan Ahmad

doi:10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.775

Consonant is all you need: a compact representation of English text for efficient NLP

Maged S. Al-Shaibani
, Irfan Ahmad

Department of Information and Computer Science

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

4 Scopus citations

Abstract

In natural language processing (NLP), the representation of text plays a crucial role in various tasks such as language modeling, sentiment analysis, and machine translation. The standard approach is to represent text in the same way as we, as humans, read and write. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to represent text with only consonants which presents a compact representation of English text that offers improved efficiency without sacrificing performance. We exploit the fact that consonants are more discriminative than vowels and by representing text using consonants, we can significantly reduce the overall memory and compute footprint required for storing and processing textual data.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publication	EMNLP 2023
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	11578-11588
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9798891760615
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.775
State	Published - 2023
Event	2023 Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 - Hybrid, Singapore Duration: 6 Dec 2023 → 10 Dec 2023

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Name	Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023

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Conference	2023 Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
Country/Territory	Singapore
City	Hybrid
Period	6/12/23 → 10/12/23

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Computational Theory and Mathematics
Computer Science Applications
Information Systems
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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Al-Shaibani, M. S., & Ahmad, I. (2023). Consonant is all you need: a compact representation of English text for efficient NLP. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 (pp. 11578-11588). (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.775

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Al-Shaibani, MS & Ahmad, I 2023, Consonant is all you need: a compact representation of English text for efficient NLP. in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 11578-11588, 2023 Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, Hybrid, Singapore, 6/12/23. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.775

Consonant is all you need: a compact representation of English text for efficient NLP. / Al-Shaibani, Maged S.; Ahmad, Irfan.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023. p. 11578-11588 (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Consonant is all you need: a compact representation of English text for efficient NLP

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