language: he
script: Hebrew
direction: rtl

normalization:
  unicode_normal_form: NFC
  lowercase_for_lookup: false  # Hebrew has no case
  strip_diacritics: configurable
  # Nikkud (vowel pointing) is stripped by default for lemma lookup
  # but preserved when semantically load-bearing (e.g. Qere/Ketiv distinction)
  nikkud_policy: strip_for_lookup
  cantillation_marks: strip

punctuation:
  strategy: preserve
  paragraph_marker: "\u05c0"  # paseq
  section_marker: "\u05c3"    # sof pasuq

spacing:
  strategy: whitespace-delimited
  maqaf_handling: preserve
  # maqaf (\u05be) connects words syntactically; preserve as a unit marker

shoresh:
  # Root-based morphology. Lemma lookup resolves to 3- or 4-letter root.
  # Morphological analysis must identify shoresh before feature extraction.
  extraction_required: true