N'Ko Research Papers

The public closeout series now lives under `final/`. Each paper has its own folder with a local `paper.tex`, compiled `paper.pdf`, `references.bib`, `paper.bbl`, and relative `figures/` assets, so each manuscript can compile from its own directory. | # | Paper | Folder | PDF pages | Role | |---|-------|--------|-----------|------| | 1 | Dead Circuits: Script Invisibility and Representation Failure for N'Ko in Large Language Models | `final/01-script-invisibility/` | 11 | Establishes the LLM representation failure with research questions, falsification criteria, evidence ladder, tokenizer-burden formalism, evidence artifact contract, remediation agenda, reviewer checklist, and validity threats. | | 2 | Against WER: Phonemic Evaluation, Orthographic Transparency, and the Script Advantage for Manding ASR | `final/02-phonemic-evaluation/` | 10 | Formalizes the metric problem, N'Ko-vs-Latin script advantage, transparent-script edit preservation, normalization protocol, CER/PER proxy boundary, metric failure taxonomy, and matched-evaluation requirements. | | 3 | Script-Native ASR for N'Ko: Anticipatory Transformer CTC Decoding and the 20.57% CER Anchor | `final/03-script-native-asr-anchor/` | 12 | Preserves the technical ASR anchor with architecture, trajectory-state math, corpus split, 20.57% CER arithmetic, hashes, allowed/disallowed claims, provenance notes, artifact contract, operational lessons, and model-card boundaries. | | 4 | Anticipation Geometry Partition: Row-Level Governance for Script-Native N'Ko ASR Deployment | `final/04-agp-deployment/` | 12 | Defines AGP as the post-ASR correction/provenance/deployment governance layer with system boundaries, pipeline formalization, row contracts, partition scoring, correction benchmark design, failure taxonomy, human review, data lifecycle, Djoko substrate, and ExpF/ExpH evidence. | Recommended public narrative: use the four papers as the final publishable bundle and treat `current/paper_canonical_nko_agp_20cer.tex` as the synthesis manuscript that explains how the four papers connect. The 20.57% CER should be described as an archived N'Ko trajectory ASR checkpoint under recorded settings, not as a universal matched proof against Latin. The readable public companion lives in `blog-series/`. It inherits the stronger voice from the original `blog/posts/` drafts: historical opening, experiment chronology, concrete numbers, and plain-English explanations before acronyms. Start with `blog-series/00-field-guide-to-the-claim.md`, then publish the four essays in order. | # | Paper | File | Status | Pages | |---|-------|------|--------|-------| | 1 | Dead Circuits: Activation Profiling and Script Invisibility in LLMs | `current/paper1_dead_circuits.tex` | Draft complete | ~20 | | 2 | Living Speech: Script-Nat