chasen

Japanese Morphological Analysis System

Japanese Morphological Analysis System, ChaSen ChaSen version 1.0 was officially released on 19 February, 1997 by the Computational Linguistics Laboratory, the Graduate School of Information Science, and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST). It is a free Japanese Morphological analyser. It grew out of JUMAN version 2.0 development and has made significant improvements in system performance. Origin of Package Name: Takayama, Nara (where NAIST is situated) is famous for producing a tea whisk used in traditional Japanese tea ceremonies. The Japanese name for the tea whisk is "chasen" and that is the reason for giving the name ChaSen to this package developed in NAIST.