juman ☆
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Description:
Japanese morphological analysis system
Type: Formula  |  Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: Developer tools
Tags: japanese nlp morphological-analysis text-processing linguistics
Install: brew install juman
About:
Juman is a widely-used Japanese morphological analysis system developed by Kyoto University. It segments Japanese text into morphemes and assigns part-of-speech information, which is essential for natural language processing tasks. Its robust dictionary and rule-based system provide high accuracy for analyzing standard Japanese text.
Key Features:
  • High-precision morphological analysis
  • Extensive Japanese lexicon
  • Part-of-speech tagging
  • Compound word processing
  • Command-line interface
Use Cases:
  • Preprocessing text for natural language processing (NLP) pipelines
  • Building Japanese text search and indexing systems
  • Analyzing linguistic features in Japanese documents
Alternatives:
  • MeCab – MeCab is a more modern and extensible successor that supports multiple dictionaries, including Juman's.
  • Kuromoji – A Java-based morphological analyzer often used in Elasticsearch, offering similar functionality for the JVM ecosystem.
Version History
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Sep 12, 2025 2:27pm 0 VERSION_BUMP c29d2b89
Sep 14, 2024 11:03am 0 VERSION_BUMP 2be6c97c
Aug 28, 2024 1:54pm 0 VERSION_BUMP 57ae8ba7
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