NAME

       chasen ‐ Japanese Morphological Analysis System

SYNOPSIS

       chasen [options] file

DESCRIPTION

       chasen  is  a  morphological  analysis  system.  It can segment and tokenize Japanese text
       string,  and  can  output  with  many  additional  information  (pronunciation,   semantic
       information, and others).

       It  will  print  the result of such an operation to the standard output, so that it can be
       either written to a file or further processed.

OPTIONS

       -s     Use partial sentence mode for analysis.

       -j     Use Japanese sentence mode for analysis.  KUTEN (including other puncuation  marks)
              and empty line are treated as the punctuation of the text.

       -C     Use the command mode for analysis.

       -b     Show the best path. (default)

       -m     Show all morphemes where ambiguity is identified in the best path.

       -p     Show all paths expanding for all combinations of the ambiguity.

       -f     Show formatted morpheme data in column (default)

       -e     Show entire morpheme data.

       -c     Show coded morpheme data.

       -d     Show detailed morpheme for use by Prolog.

       -v     Show detailed morpheme for use by VisualMorphs.

       -O[c|s]
              Show morpheme as compound words or their segments.

       -F format
              Show morpheme formatted by the format such as "%m\t%y\t%M\t%U(%P-)\t%T \t%F \n" .

       -Fh    Print help information for -F option.

       -i lang
              Specify the character encoding of the input file.  e: EUC-JP, s:Shift JIS, w:UTF-8,
              u:UTF-8, a:ISO-8859-1

       -o file
              Specify the output file to be file .

       -w width
              Specify the cost width.

       -r rcfile
              Use rcfile as the chasenrc file.

       -R     Use the system default chasenrc file (/etc/chasenrc).

       -L lang
              Specify language.

       -lp    Print the list of parts of speech (hinshi).

       -lt    Print list of conjugation types.

       -lf    Print list of conjugation forms.

       -h     Print help.

       -V     Print ChaSen version number.

       This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution  because  the  original
       program does not have a manual page.

SEE ALSO

       The    programs    are   documented   fully   by   /usr/share/doc/chasen/manual‐j.tex   or
       /usr/share/doc/chasen/manual‐j.pdf.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Takao KAWAMURA  <kawamura@debian.or.jp>  and  modified  by
       Hideki  Yamane  <henrich@debian.or.jp>  and  Osamu  Aoki <osamu@debian.org> for the Debian
       GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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