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“Cracking Japanese text apart with Mecab” By Akira Kurogane
Mecab is a well-regarded natural language processing library for Japanese text. Already it is an important tool for linguistic study and no doubt is used in many search tools, but a third use has been found- helping non-native readers learn nihongo as they read it (e.g. on the web). Some methodology explained, and some demonstrations given.
Links related to the talk:
Firefox add-on for easy demonstration of Mecab: xpcom-mecab
Furigana Injector. (N.B. Please download from the development homepage link to the left. The last version released on the official Mozilla Add-ons site is an old one that does not apply Mecab.)
Main homepage for Mecab Mailing list for developers, users
Package names for the compiled command-line programs are simply “mecab”, “mecab-devel”, etc.. The usual dictionary to use is IPADIC, i.e. package “mecab-ipadic”. (In some distributions the dictionary may be available in different charsets, e.g. mecab-ipadic-utf8. Use whichever you like.) There is also a MacPort (at least for older versions) and a Windows installer.
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“Version Control from RCS to git” By Stephen J. Turnbull
This talk will cover the presenters experience with a number of version control systems, including RCS, CVS, Arch, Darcs, git, Bazaar, and Mercurial.
Other items on the agenda are:
- Introduction of new members, news about Linux/Open Source, general announcements, Q&A
- Auction (bring any gear that would would like to donate to TLUG)