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NAME

Text::MeCab - Alternate Interface To libmecab

SYNOPSIS

  use Text::MeCab;
  my $mecab = Text::MeCab->new({
    rcfile             => $rcfile,
    dicdir             => $dicdir,
    userdic            => $userdic,
    lattice_level      => $lattice_level,
    all_morphs         => $all_morphs,
    output_format_type => $output_format_type,
    partial            => $partial,
    node_format        => $node_format,
    unk_format         => $unk_format,
    bos_format         => $bos_format,
    eos_format         => $eos_format,
    input_buffer_size  => $input_buffer_soap,
    allocate_sentence  => $allocate_sentence,
    nbest              => $nbest,
    theta              => $theta,
  });

  for (my $node = $mecab->parse($text); $node; $node = $node->next) {
     # See perdoc for Text::MeCab::Node for list of methods
     print $node->surface, "\n";
  }

  # use constants
  use Text::MeCab qw(:all);
  use Text::MeCab qw(MECAB_NODE_NODE);

  # want to use a command line arguments?
  my $mecab = Text::MeCab->new("--userdic=/foo/bar/baz", "-P");

DESCRIPTION

libmecab (http://mecab.sourceforge.ne.jp) already has a perl interface built with it, so why a new module? I just feel that while a subtle difference, making the perl interface through a tied hash is just... weird.

So Text::MeCab gives you a more natural, Perl-ish way to access libmecab!

METHODS

new HASHREF | LIST

Creates a new Text::MeCab instance.

You can either specify a hashref and use named parameters, or you can use the exact command line arguments that the mecab command accepts.

Below is the list of accepted named options. See the man page for mecab for details about each option.

rcfile
dicdir
lattice_level
all_morphs
output_format_type
partial
node_format
unk_format
bos_format
eos_format
input_buffer_size
allocate_sentence
nbest
theta

parse SCALAR

Parses the given text via mecab, and returns a mecab node object.

SEE ALSO

http://mecab.sourceforge.ne.jp

AUTHOR

(c) 2006 Daisuke Maki <dmaki@cpan.org> All rights reserved.