Intelligent Korean Morpheme Analyzer in Python
Utilizing “kiwipiepy” for Korean natural language processing
By reading this article, you will learn to perform natural language processing tasks for the Korean language in Python.
Previously, I have covered an article on Korean Natural Language Processing in Python using konlpy module. This article is based on a different Python package called kiwipiepy. For your information, the kiwipiepy module is an intelligent korean morpheme analyzer. Compared to konlpy module, the kiwipiepy package has the following advantages:
- the installation step is a lot simpler
- comparable performance on tokenization and part-of-speech tagging tasks
- faster inference time
- the package is actively maintained by the developer (as of June 2023)
However, it suffers from the following problems:
- the documentations are written in Korean
- different tag system for part-of-speech tagging task
Let’s proceed to the next section and start installing all the necessary modules.
Setup
It is highly recommended to create a new virtual environment before you continue with the installation process.
