lindera-nodejs

Node.js binding for Lindera, a Japanese morphological analysis engine.

Overview

lindera-nodejs provides a comprehensive Node.js interface to the Lindera morphological analysis engine, supporting Japanese, Korean, and Chinese text analysis. This implementation includes all major features:

Multi-language Support: Japanese (IPADIC, IPADIC-NEologd, UniDic), Korean (ko-dic), Chinese (CC-CEDICT, Jieba)
Character Filters: Text preprocessing with mapping, regex, Unicode normalization, and Japanese iteration mark handling
Token Filters: Post-processing filters including lowercase, length filtering, stop words, and Japanese-specific filters
Flexible Configuration: Configurable tokenization modes and penalty settings
Metadata Support: Complete dictionary schema and metadata management
TypeScript Support: Full type definitions included out of the box

Features

Core Components

TokenizerBuilder: Fluent API for building customized tokenizers
Tokenizer: High-performance text tokenization with integrated filtering
CharacterFilter: Pre-processing filters for text normalization
TokenFilter: Post-processing filters for token refinement
Metadata & Schema: Dictionary structure and configuration management
Training & Export (optional): Train custom morphological analysis models from corpus data

Supported Dictionaries

Japanese: IPADIC, IPADIC-NEologd, UniDic
Korean: ko-dic
Chinese: CC-CEDICT, Jieba
Custom: User dictionary support

Pre-built dictionaries are available from GitHub Releases. Download a dictionary archive (e.g. lindera-ipadic-*.zip) and specify the extracted path when loading.

Filter Types

Character Filters:

Mapping filter (character replacement)
Regex filter (pattern-based replacement)
Unicode normalization (NFKC, etc.)
Japanese iteration mark normalization

Token Filters:

Text case transformation (lowercase, uppercase)
Length filtering (min/max character length)
Stop words filtering
Japanese-specific filters (base form, reading form, etc.)
Korean-specific filters

Install project dependencies

Node.js 18+ : https://nodejs.org/
Rust : https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
@napi-rs/cli : npm install -g @napi-rs/cli

Setup repository

# Clone lindera project repository
git clone git@github.com:lindera/lindera.git
cd lindera

Install lindera-nodejs

This command builds the library with development settings (debug build).

cd lindera-nodejs
npm install
npm run build

Quick Start

Basic Tokenization

const { loadDictionary, Tokenizer } = require("lindera");

// Load dictionary
// Load dictionary from a local path (download from GitHub Releases)
const dictionary = loadDictionary("/path/to/ipadic");

// Create a tokenizer
const tokenizer = new Tokenizer(dictionary, "normal");

// Tokenize Japanese text
const text = "すもももももももものうち";
const tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(text);

for (const token of tokens) {
  console.log(`Text: ${token.surface}, Position: ${token.byteStart}-${token.byteEnd}`);
}

Using Character Filters

const { TokenizerBuilder } = require("lindera");

// Create tokenizer builder
const builder = new TokenizerBuilder();
builder.setMode("normal");
builder.setDictionary("/path/to/ipadic");

// Add character filters
builder.appendCharacterFilter("mapping", { mapping: { "ー": "-" } });
builder.appendCharacterFilter("unicode_normalize", { kind: "nfkc" });

// Build tokenizer with filters
const tokenizer = builder.build();
const text = "テストー１２３";
const tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(text); // Will apply filters automatically

Using Token Filters

const { TokenizerBuilder } = require("lindera");

// Create tokenizer builder
const builder = new TokenizerBuilder();
builder.setMode("normal");
builder.setDictionary("/path/to/ipadic");

// Add token filters
builder.appendTokenFilter("lowercase");
builder.appendTokenFilter("length", { min: 2, max: 10 });
builder.appendTokenFilter("japanese_stop_tags", { tags: ["助詞", "助動詞"] });

// Build tokenizer with filters
const tokenizer = builder.build();
const tokens = tokenizer.tokenize("テキストの解析");

Integrated Pipeline

const { TokenizerBuilder } = require("lindera");

// Build tokenizer with integrated filters
const builder = new TokenizerBuilder();
builder.setMode("normal");
builder.setDictionary("/path/to/ipadic");

// Add character filters
builder.appendCharacterFilter("mapping", { mapping: { "ー": "-" } });
builder.appendCharacterFilter("unicode_normalize", { kind: "nfkc" });

// Add token filters
builder.appendTokenFilter("lowercase");
builder.appendTokenFilter("japanese_base_form");

// Build and use
const tokenizer = builder.build();
const tokens = tokenizer.tokenize("コーヒーショップ");

Working with Metadata

const { Metadata } = require("lindera");

// Create metadata with default values
const metadata = new Metadata();
console.log(`Name: ${metadata.name}`);
console.log(`Encoding: ${metadata.encoding}`);

// Create metadata from a JSON file
const loaded = Metadata.fromJsonFile("metadata.json");
console.log(loaded.toObject());

Advanced Usage

Filter Configuration Examples

Character filters and token filters accept configuration as object arguments:

const { TokenizerBuilder } = require("lindera");

const builder = new TokenizerBuilder();
builder.setDictionary("/path/to/ipadic");

// Character filters with object configuration
builder.appendCharacterFilter("unicode_normalize", { kind: "nfkc" });
builder.appendCharacterFilter("japanese_iteration_mark", {
  normalize_kanji: true,
  normalize_kana: true,
});
builder.appendCharacterFilter("mapping", {
  mapping: { "リンデラ": "lindera", "トウキョウ": "東京" },
});

// Token filters with object configuration
builder.appendTokenFilter("japanese_katakana_stem", { min: 3 });
builder.appendTokenFilter("length", { min: 2, max: 10 });
builder.appendTokenFilter("japanese_stop_tags", {
  tags: ["助詞", "助動詞", "記号"],
});

// Filters without configuration can omit the object
builder.appendTokenFilter("lowercase");
builder.appendTokenFilter("japanese_base_form");

const tokenizer = builder.build();

See examples/ directory for comprehensive examples including:

tokenize.js: Basic tokenization
tokenize_with_filters.js: Using character and token filters
tokenize_with_userdict.js: Custom user dictionary
train_and_export.js: Train and export custom dictionaries (requires train feature)
tokenize_with_decompose.js: Decompose mode tokenization

Dictionary Support

Japanese

IPADIC: Default Japanese dictionary, good for general text
UniDic: Academic dictionary with detailed morphological information

Korean

ko-dic: Standard Korean dictionary for morphological analysis

Chinese

CC-CEDICT: Community-maintained Chinese-English dictionary

Custom Dictionaries

User dictionary support for domain-specific terms
CSV format for easy customization

Dictionary Training (Experimental)

lindera-nodejs supports training custom morphological analysis models from annotated corpus data when built with the train feature.

Building with Training Support

npm run build -- --features train

Training a Model

const { train } = require("lindera");

// Train a model from corpus
train({
  seed: "path/to/seed.csv",
  corpus: "path/to/corpus.txt",
  charDef: "path/to/char.def",
  unkDef: "path/to/unk.def",
  featureDef: "path/to/feature.def",
  rewriteDef: "path/to/rewrite.def",
  output: "model.dat",
  lambda: 0.01,
  maxIter: 100,
});

Exporting Dictionary Files

const { exportModel } = require("lindera");

// Export trained model to dictionary files
exportModel({
  model: "model.dat",
  output: "exported_dict/",
  metadata: "metadata.json",
});

This will create:

lex.csv: Lexicon file
matrix.def: Connection cost matrix
unk.def: Unknown word definitions
char.def: Character definitions
metadata.json: Dictionary metadata (if provided)

See examples/train_and_export.js for a complete example.

API Reference

Core Classes

TokenizerBuilder: Fluent builder for tokenizer configuration
Tokenizer: Main tokenization engine
Token: Individual token with text, position, and linguistic features
Metadata: Dictionary metadata and configuration
Schema: Dictionary schema definition

Training Functions (requires `train` feature)

train(): Train a morphological analysis model from corpus
exportModel(): Export trained model to dictionary files

lindera-nodejs 3.0.0