Mecab

Jul 20, 2023

Yet Another Part-of-Speech and Morphological Analyzer

MeCab is open source Japanese dependency structure analyzer developed through the joint research project between Graduate School of Informatics Kyoto University and NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Communication Science Laboratories. It has following features

  • General-purpose design independent from language, dictionary and corpus.
  • High precision of analysis based on Conditional Random Fields.
  • Faster than ChaSen, Juman and KAKASI.
  • Library is reentrant.
  • Scripting language bindings such as Perl/Ruby/Python/Java/C#.


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