CasualMecab

is the name I gave to a utility program that is based on MeCab. What this program does is POS/morphological analysis of Japanese text. What the program does at this moment is simply produce MeCab output. Choices are MeCab output, Chasen-like output, wakachi-gaki (words with spaces in between), and yomi (in katakana). The output can be saved as a text file. I want to add other output formats, but probably not in the near future. This program can also handle batch process although I haven't tested it extensively. The output file is encoded in UTF-8, mainly because that's what CasualConc can handle. I want to add Japanese concordancing feature to CasualConc in the future. If anyone ever finds this blog and is interested, please go to CasualConc site and download it. By the way, this program requires MeCab and MeCab-Ruby. The instruction to install these are also at CaualConc site. The installation is not simple (you need to use Terminal and command line to install), but the instruction is step-by-step. I hope anyone can understand it. As always, this is a Leopard only program and free.

MeCab-Ruby

I finally found a way to successfully install MeCab (Japanese parser) and MeCab-Ruby, Ruby binding for MeCab on Leopard. I added this page to the CasualConc web site. It's only in Japanese at this moment because I'm not sure how many people actually check the site and how many of very limited visitors are interested in installing MeCab-Ruby on their Leopard machine. If anyone is interested, I can translate the page into English, but probably there are many better sites somewhere.

But now that I installed it, I might add Japanese concordancing features to CasualConc, if I ever have time. At least, I can try it now. Also if anyone can understand how to install MeCab-Ruby on their computer, I might add parcing feature (Japanese) to CasualConc, assuming people are willing to install it on their own. But I'll probably first work on GUI interface of MeCab-Ruby to create wakachi-gaki files or syntactically parsed files. But when do I have time???