Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.008 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'syntax': 0.04; 'root': 0.05; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'jan': 0.12; 'language,': 0.12; 'random': 0.14; '11:32': 0.16; 'conditional': 0.16; 'daughter': 0.16; 'dictionary,': 0.16; 'parameters,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'subject:Problem': 0.16; 'subject:UTF': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'trying': 0.19; 'translated': 0.19; 'addition,': 0.20; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'text.': 0.24; 'software.': 0.24; 'source': 0.25; 'nearly': 0.26; 'asking': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'am,': 0.29; 'generally': 0.29; 'url:code': 0.29; 'summary': 0.32; 'text': 0.33; 'open': 0.33; 'case,': 0.35; 'unit': 0.37; 'project': 0.37; 'performance': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'does': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'called': 0.40; 'improved': 0.60; 'corporation': 0.61; 'received:173': 0.61; 'developed': 0.63; 'telephone': 0.63; 'kind': 0.63; 'skip:n 10': 0.64; 'url:p': 0.64; 'between': 0.67; 'food': 0.72; 'analysis': 0.75; 'estimation': 0.84; 'premise': 0.84; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.84; 'telegraph': 0.84; 'average': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Reedy Subject: Re: MeCab UTF-8 Decoding Problem Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 11:55:41 -0400 References: <51CEE910.4090701@davea.name> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-75-251-66.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 27 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1372521366 news.xs4all.nl 15983 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:49725 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:49428 On 6/29/2013 11:32 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: >>> I am trying to use a program called MeCab, which does syntax analysis >>> on Japanese text. > > It is generally nice to give a link when asking about 3rd party > software. https://code.google.com/p/mecab/ > In this case, nearly all the non-boilerplate text is Japanese ;-(. My daughter translated the summary paragraph for me. MeCab is an open source morphological analysis open source engine developed through a collaborative unit project between Kyoto University's Informatics Research Department and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Communication Science Laboratories. Its fundamental premise is a design which is general-purpose and not reliant on a language, dictionary, or corpus. It uses Conditional Random Fields (CRF) for the estimation of the parameters, and has improved performance over ChaSen, which uses a hidden Markov model. In addition, on average it is faster than ChaSen, Juman, and KAKASI. Incidentally, the creator's favorite food is mekabu (thick leaves of wakame, a kind of edible seaweed, from near the root of the stalk). -- Terry Jan Reedy