mecab-unidic
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Description:
Morphological analyzer for MeCab
Type: Formula  |  Latest Version: 2.1.2@0  |  Tracked Since: Oct 23, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: Developer tools
Tags: japanese nlp morphological-analysis linguistics dictionary
Install: brew install mecab-unidic
About:
MeCab UniDic is a comprehensive dictionary for the MeCab morphological analyzer, developed by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. It provides part-of-speech tagging and morphological analysis capabilities essential for processing modern Japanese text. This dictionary is widely used in academic research and commercial applications requiring high-precision Japanese language processing.
Key Features:
  • Comprehensive coverage of modern Japanese vocabulary
  • Accurate part-of-speech tagging and lemmatization
  • Regularly updated with contemporary language usage
  • Standard dictionary for MeCab morphological analysis
Use Cases:
  • Natural language processing (NLP) pipelines for Japanese text analysis
  • Text preprocessing for machine learning models
  • Search engine indexing and text tokenization
  • Academic linguistic research and corpus analysis
Alternatives:
  • mecab-ipadic – Older dictionary with smaller vocabulary; UniDic is more modern and comprehensive
  • sudachipy – Alternative Japanese tokenizer with built-in dictionary; more modern but different API
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