NAME¶

kytea — a word segmentation/pronunciation estimation tool

SYNOPSIS¶

kytea [options]

DESCRIPTION¶

This manual page documents briefly the kytea command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below. kytea is morphological analysis system based on pointwise predictors. It separetes sentences into words, tagging and predict pronunciations. The pronunciation of KyTea is same as cutie.

OPTIONS¶

A summary of options is included below.

Analysis Options:¶

-model

The model file to use when analyzing text

-nows

Don't do word segmentation (raw input cannot be accepted)

-notags

Do only word segmentation, no tagging

-notag

Skip the tag of the nth tag (n starts at 1)

-nounk

Don't estimate the pronunciation of unknown words

-wsconst

Specifies character types to not be segmented (e.g. D for digits)

-unkbeam

The width of the beam to use in beam search for unknown words (default 50, 0 for full search)

-debug

The debugging level (0=silent, 1=simple, 2=detailed)

Format Options:¶

-in

The formatting of the input (raw/tok/full/part/conf, default raw)

-out

The formatting of the output (full/part/conf/eda/tags, default full)

-tagmax

The maximum number of tags to print for one word (default 3, 0 implies no limit)

-deftag

A tag for words that cannot be given any tag (for example, unknown words that contain a character not in the subword dictionary)

-unktag

A tag to append to indicate words not in the dictionary

Format Options (for advanced users):¶

-wordbound

The separator for words in full annotation (" ")

-tagbound

The separator for tags in full/partial annotation ("/")

-elembound

The separator for candidates in full/partial annotation ("&")

-unkbound

Indicates unannotated boundaries in partial annotation (" ")

-skipbound

Indicates skipped boundaries in partial annotation ("?")

-nobound

Indicates non-existence of boundaries in partial annotation ("-")

-hasbound

Indicates existence of boundaries in partial annotation ("|")

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was written by Koichi Akabe vbkaisetsu@gmail.com for the Debian system (and may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.