(2006), we use a hybrid word-and consonant-level approach based on the following observations (statistics taken from the Syriac training and development sets explained in Section 4): Contrary to observations 1 and 2, consonant-level approaches dedicate modeling capacity to an exponential (in the number of consonants) number of possible diacritizations of a word.
a word-level approach directly models the (few) diacritized forms seen in training.