fugashi 0.1.6

A Cython wrapper for MeCab

fugashi

Fugashi is a Cython wrapper for MeCab. It doesn't attempt to cover all of the potential use cases of MeCab, instead dealing with only the most common ones.

• Only UniDic is supported, you can't use IPADic. UniDic Neologd is fine.
• Only UTF-8 is supported.
• Only Python3 is supported.

See the blog post for background on why Fugashi exists and some of the design decisions.

Usage

from fugashi import Tagger

tagger = Tagger('-Owakati')
text = "麩菓子（ふがし）は、麩を主材料とした日本の菓子。"
tagger.parse(text)
# => '麩 菓子 （ ふ が し ） は 、 麩 を 主材 料 と し た 日本 の 菓子 。'
for word in tagger.parseToNodeList(text):
    print(word, word.feature.lemma, word.pos, sep='\t')
    # "feature" is the Unidic feature data as a named tuple

Alternatives

If you have a problem with Fugashi feel free to open an issue. However, there are some cases where it might be better to use a different library.

• If you want to use MeCab but don't have a C compiler, use natto-py.
• If you don't want to deal with installing MeCab at all, try SudachiPy.

Note that these are both slower than Fugashi according to a benchmark I wrote.