mecabwrap 0.3.4

Yet another interface to MeCab morphological analyzer

mecabwrap is yet another Python interface to MeCab Morphological Analyzer.

Its goal is to provide intuitive APIs that work on Unix and Windows machines seamlessly.

Requirement

• Python 2.7+ or 3.4+ (May also work on older versions)

• MeCab 0.996

Installation

1. Install MeCab

Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install mecab libmecab-dev mecab-ipadic-utf8

Mac OSX

$ brew install mecab mecab-ipadic

Windows

Download and run the installer.

See also: official website

2. Install this Package

Install from PyPI

$ pip install mecabwrap

or, from GitHub

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kota7/mecabwrap-py.git
$ cd mecabwrap-py
$ pip install -U .

Quick Check

Following command will print the MeCab version. Otherwise, you do not have MeCab installed or MeCab is not on the search path.

$ mecab -v
# should print `mecab of 0.996` or similar.

To verify that the package is successfully installed, try the following:

$ python

>>> from mecabwrap import tokenize, print_token
>>> for token in tokenize(u"すもももももももものうち"):
...     print_token(token)
...
すもも 名詞,一般,*,*,*,*,すもも,スモモ,スモモ
も   助詞,係助詞,*,*,*,*,も,モ,モ
もも  名詞,一般,*,*,*,*,もも,モモ,モモ
も   助詞,係助詞,*,*,*,*,も,モ,モ
もも  名詞,一般,*,*,*,*,もも,モモ,モモ
の   助詞,連体化,*,*,*,*,の,ノ,ノ
うち  名詞,非自立,副詞可能,*,*,*,うち,ウチ,ウチ

Usage

See the example notebook (or a cleaner version on nbviewer) for more detail.