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		Japanese Morphological Analysis System
			  ChaSen version 2.03
                             Jun. 18, 2000
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0. files and directories

   README                README file in English (this file)
   README.ja             README file in Japanese
   CHANGES               changes
   lib/                  ChaSen library and its sources
   chasen/               ChaSen program and its sources
   mkchadic/             programs for making dictionaries and its sources
   prolog/               Prolog program to use ChaSen
   perl/                 Perl module to use ChaSen
   doc/                  manuals
   dic/                  dictionaries (IPA version)

1. install

   1. Modify Makefile as you like and type "make".  This
      produces all the necessary object programs.  This distribution
      is compiled with `v-gram' option. It is not compatible with
      previous distributions nor dictionaries.

   2. Type "make dic".  This produces the system dictionaries. 
      The compilation time of the current dictionary is about 50
      seconds on Pentium II (400MHz).  The size of the compiled
      dictionary (chadic.int and chadic.pat) is about 10Mbytes in
      total.

   3. Type "make install" to install programs. This does not install
      Emacs Lisp version of ChaSen client and Perl module.

   4. To use user specific chasenrc file, copy dic/chasenrc
      to the user's home directory as the name ".chasenrc" and modify
      .chasenrc so that it correctly indicates the directories for
      the files of grammar definition and dictionaries.

2. how to use ChaSen system

   Suppose a Japanese text file "nihongo," which should be encoded in
   Japanese EUC (Extended UNIX Code) or JIS (ISO-2022-JP). Issue the
   following command:

   % chasen nihongo

   The result of the morphological analysis is shown on the standard
   output.  If your terminal has a direct input facility of Japanese
   characters, simply type 

   % chasen

   then input a Japanese sentence followed by a carrige return.

   You can use ChaSen server and its client. First, type

   % chasen -s

   to start ChaSen server. type

   % chasen -Dhost nihongo

   (`host' should be the hostname of ChaSen server) to run ChaSen
   client.

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See doc/manual.pdf for details.
For further information, send an email to chasen@cl.aist-nara.ac.jp.
ChaSen homepage: http://cl.aist-nara.ac.jp/lab/nlt/chasen.html
