textanalytics.ja.mecabToNER

Extract named entity information from MeCab output for Japanese

Syntax

entities = textanalytics.ja.mecabToNER(words,info)

Description

entities = textanalytics.ja.mecabToNER(words,info) extracts named entity information given MeCab output in the format returned by the MeCab-ipadic dictionary.

Input Arguments

words — Input tokens

string vector

Input tokens, specified as a string vector.

Data Types: string

info — Information struct

struct

Information struct with the following fields:

• Feature – String vector of tokens of the same size as words containing the MeCab output lines in ChaSen format without the split tokens themselves.

• PartOfSpeech – Numerical code used inside the MeCab-ipadic dictionary for the part-of-speech classification.

Data Types: struct

Output Arguments

entities — Extracted entity information

categorical vector

Extracted entity information, returned as a categorical vector the same size as words.

Version History

Introduced in R2019b