/CaboCha-Ubuntu-18-04-LTS-Installation-Guide

How to install CaboCha, Mecab and corresponding Python development instruments on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

How to install CaboCha, Mecab and corresponding Python development instruments on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

1. Preparations

  1. Open terminal and execute:
sudo apt-get install build-essential

2. Mecab

  1. Next, run this command to install Mecab:
sudo apt-get install mecab libmecab-dev mecab-ipadic mecab-ipadic-utf8 mecab-jumandic mecab-jumandic-utf8

3. Mecab Python wrapper

  1. Then you need to install mecab-python:
pip3 install mecab-python3

4. CRF++

  1. Download the latest CRF++ archive from here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4y35FiV1wh7fngteFhHQUN2Y1B5eUJBNHZUemJYQV9VWlBUb3JlX0xBdWVZTWtSbVBneU0
  2. Go to the directory where the downloaded archive is located and then execute thess commands one by one:
tar xzvf CRF++-0.58.tar.gz
cd CRF++-0.58
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

5. CaboCha

  1. In this step you are ready to compile and install CaboCha. Download the latest version here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4y35FiV1wh7cGRCUUJHVTNJRnM
  2. Go to the directory with the archive and execute:
tar xjvf cabocha-0.69.tar.bz2
cd cabocha-0.69
./configure --with-charset=utf8
make
sudo make install

6. CaboCha Python wrapper

  1. When you are in the /cabocha-0.69/ directory run these commands:
cd python
sudo python3 setup.py install

ERROR: Cabocha Python wrapper can't find libcabocha.so.5

If you encountered this kind of a problem, run these commands:

cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libcabocha.so.5 libcabocha.so.5

This is it! You've successfully installed everything you need to use CaboCha and Mecab in your Python programming.

References (including How-To on using CaboCha and Mecab in Python programming)