mecab-ko-dic
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Description:
See mecab
Type: Formula  |  Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: Developer tools
Tags: korean nlp mecab dictionary text-processing linguistics
Install: brew install mecab-ko-dic
About:
MecabKoDic is a comprehensive Korean dictionary for the MeCab morphological analyzer. It provides the necessary linguistic data to accurately tokenize and analyze Korean text. This package is essential for building Korean NLP applications like search engines, text analyzers, and chatbots.
Key Features:
  • Comprehensive Korean vocabulary and morphological data
  • Compatible with the standard MeCab segmentation engine
  • Actively maintained by the Eunjeon project community
  • Provides part-of-speech tagging for Korean text
Use Cases:
  • Building Korean natural language processing (NLP) pipelines
  • Tokenizing Korean text for search engine indexing
  • Analyzing sentiment in Korean social media posts
  • Developing Korean chatbot or speech recognition systems
Alternatives:
  • mecab-ko-dic-aws – A fork optimized for AWS environments, but the standard eunjeon version is the community standard.
  • Open Korean Text – A Java-based Korean NLP library that includes a tokenizer, offering an alternative ecosystem to MeCab.
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