• is phonetic alphabet a better representation for text understanding?
• reduces dimensionality compared to characters
• stemming is implied by shared phonetics

practicalities

• network for ingesting hybrid input
  • perf on characters
  • perf on hybrid characters only
  • perf on hybrid input
• get raw text
  • function to go from raw text to representation
    • tokenizer
    • spaces between alphabetic words
• dict improvements
  • add numbers [spell out]
  • add years [spell out]
  • add alphabetic words []
  • add accented words
  • tokenization (apostrophes, hyphens, abbreviations)
  • odd tokens [br]