unidic 1.0.2

UniDic packaged for Python

unidic-py

This is a version of UniDic packaged for use with pip.

Currently it supports 2.3.0, the latest version of UniDic. Note this will take up 1GB on disk after install and can take a long time to download. If you want a small package, try unidic-lite.

After installing via pip, you need to download the dictionary using the following command:

python -m unidic download

Example use with fugashi, though mecab-python3 works the same way:

import fugashi
import unidic
tagger = fugashi.Tagger('-d{}'.format(unidic.DICDIR))
# that's it!

Differences from the Official UniDic Release

This has a few changes from the official UniDic release to make it easier to use.

• entries for 令和 have been added
• single-character numeric and alphabetic words have been deleted
• unk.def has been modified so unknown punctuation won't be marked as a noun

License

The modern Japanese UniDic is available under the GPL, LGPL, or BSD license, see here. UniDic is developed by NINJAL, the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. UniDic is copyrighted by the UniDic Consortium and is distributed here under the terms of the BSD License.

The code in this repository is not written or maintained by NINJAL. The code is available under the MIT or WTFPL License, as you prefer.