{"categories":[{"label":"Linguistic","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/text-processing-linguistic/2"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Provides the IPAdic Japanese morphological dictionary for use with mecab-python3 or fugashi, enabling Japanese text tokenization and part-of-speech tagging.","skillfed_tags":["japanese-nlp","legacy-dictionary"],"use_cases":["Running legacy Japanese NLP models or benchmarks that were trained with the original IPAdic dictionary.","Reproducing historical results or papers that explicitly used IPAdic for tokenization and tagging.","Maintaining compatibility with existing code that hard-codes ipadic.MECAB_ARGS for analyzer initialization."],"what_it_does":"ipadic is a Python package that bundles IPAdic, a Japanese morphological dictionary originally included with MeCab. It is designed to work as a companion to morphological analyzers like mecab-python3 or fugashi, providing the dictionary data needed to perform Japanese text tokenization and part-of-speech tagging. The package contains no code of its own\u2014it is purely a data distribution mechanism.\n\nThe package is explicitly discouraged by its maintainer. The underlying dictionary has not been updated since at least 2007 and lacks modern Japanese terminology. The authors recommend using Unidic instead, which is actively maintained. ipadic is retained only for compatibility with old benchmarks or models that depend on the original dictionary.","worth_installing":"No, unless you are specifically maintaining legacy code or reproducing old benchmarks. The package is abandoned (last update 2020-07-20), the underlying dictionary is outdated (not updated since at least 2007), and the maintainers explicitly recommend alternatives. High install friction and unclear license treatment add further friction. Install only if you have a documented reason to use the original IPAdic."},"id":"ipadic","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/ipadic","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/ipadic.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/ipadic/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2020-07-20","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"unclear","name":"ipadic","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"IPAdic packaged for Python"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":209063,"position":9521,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.0.0"}