CHANGELOG

  • __2019/01/12: 1.1.2 release

    • Issue 73: Do not conceal original error in parse_tostr and parse_tonodes
    • Updating LICENSE and copyright for year 2019.

  • 2016/06/18: 1.1.1 release

    • Issue 68: Speed up for accessing field of Struct.
    • Updating LICENSE and copyright for year 2016.

  • 2015/12/24: 1.1.0 release

    • Issue 64: undefined method 'mecab_model_destory' for Natto::MeCab:Class
    • Updated Travis rubies

  • 2015/07/20: 1.0.1 release.

    • Issue 62: Ruby warning: shadowing outer local variable - opts

  • 2015/04/14: 1.0.0 release.

    • Issue 36: Fixed @param documentation
    • Issue 37: README and bullet points under Automatic Configuration
    • Issue 38: Updated URLs in documentation to point to Ruby 2.2.1
    • Issue 39: Make refs to MeCab and Tagger consistent in docs
    • Issue 40: Use new Model- and Lattice-based C APIs internally
    • Issue 45: Add support for feature constraint parsing
    • Issue 48: Put in a guard to prevent partial parsing of text that does not end with a new-line char
    • Issue 50: Update all references to Natto::MeCab in documentation to reflect new internal structure
    • Issue 52: Downloads and license badges for README.md & API docs
    • Issue 55: Node parsing with --all-morphs option missing surface values

  • 2015/03/31: 0.9.9 release.

    • Issue 21/34: Implemented boundary constraint parsing.
    • Issue 26: Removing deprecated methods parse_as_nodes, parse_as_strings, readnodes and readlines.
    • Issue 32: Fixed partial parsing.
    • Updated documentation for new MeCab home at http://taku910.github.io/mecab/.

  • 2015/02/10: 0.9.8 release.

    • Migrated natto code home from Bitbucket to GitHub.
    • Improved documentation following said migration.
    • Minor refactoring to Natto::MeCabNode#to_s.
    • Updating LICENSE for year 2015.

  • 2014/12/20: 0.9.7 release.

    • Issue 14: adding automatic discovery for mecab library; no need to explicitly set MECAB_PATH
    • Issue 15: refactored node-parsing to use Enumerator instead of materializing every node and stuffing into array
    • Issue 17: adding filepath to MeCab and DictionaryInfo
    • Issue 18: bug-fix for node-formatting during default node parse
    • Deprecating parse_as_nodes and parse_as_strings; please use parse instead!
    • CAUTION: parse_as_nodes, parse_as_strings, readnodes and readlines will be removed in the following release!
    • Enhancements to to_s methods for both MeCab and DictionaryInfo
    • Enhancements to TestDictionaryInfo to allow for building user dic during setup on Windows as well
    • Slight enhancement to benchmark task.
    • Updating LICENSE (adding copyright year 2015), adding to all files

  • 2013/07/07: 0.9.6 release.

    • Upgrade to mecab 0.996
    • Adding support for partial parsing mode (-p / --partial)
    • Adding support for marginal probability output mode (-m / --marginal)
    • Adding support for maximum grouping size for unknown words (-M / --max-grouping-size)
    • Outputting warning message for deprecation of :lattice_level option
    • Requiring ffi 1.9.0 or greater
    • Dropping support for Ruby 1.8.7
    • Migrating to minitest
    • Removing automatic library load for Cygwin platform (does not compile)

  • 2012/09/16: 0.9.5 release.

    • Fixed Issue 9: trimされていない文字列のparse
    • Fixed Issue 10: BUG Segmentation Fault
    • Adding parse_as_nodes to allow for method-chaining on list of parsed nodes
    • Adding parse_as_strings to allow for method-chaining on list of string output
    • Deprecating both readnodes and readlines (badly named methods, see parse_as_nodes and parse_as_strings, respectively)
    • Refactored the option parsing logic into Natto::OptionParse
    • Enhanced Natto::DictionaryInfo#type override for java or ruby < 1.9

  • 2012/02/26: 0.9.4 release.

    • Exposing the underlying FFI pointer as @tagger in Natto::MeCab
    • Exposing the underlying FFI pointer as @pointer in Natto::MeCabNode
    • Fixed node formatting behavior for both regular and N-Best node parsing
    • Adding is_nor?, is_unk?, is_bos?, is_eos?, is_eon? to Natto::MeCabNode
    • Adding is_sysdic?, is_usrdic?, is_unkdic? to Natto::DictionaryInfo
    • Adding readnodes to allow for method-chaining on list of parsed nodes
    • Adding readlines to allow for method-chaining on list of string output
    • Updating README to include description of DevKit install for RubyInstaller
    • Refactored the codebase, introducing more tests

  • 2012/02/14: 0.9.3 release.

    • Updating structures, tests following the latest release of MeCab 0.993
    • Ending support for 0.98 MeCab.
    • Support for MeCab 0.993 in Cygwin is still not confirmed.

  • 2011/11/14: 0.9.2 release.

    • Bumping up version to 0.9.2, following the migration of this project to bitbucket (hg)

  • 2011/10/23: 0.9.1 release.

    • MeCab configurations can now be a string as per MeCab command-line
    • Adding more tests around the configuration processing
    • Pulling support for mecab option 'output', since it is more of a command-line feature

  • 2011/09/11: 0.9.0 release.

    • Bumping up version to 0.9.0, as natto appears to be stable
    • Also migrated project to github

  • 2011/03/23: 0.5.1 release.

    • Corrected mojibake issue for surface and feature values when node-parsing
    • Corrected call to NBest initializer in lambdas for Natto::MeCab#initialize

  • 2011/02/26: 0.5.0 release.

    • Added support for node parsing using blocks
    • Added support for mecab options nbest, all-morphs
    • Pulling support for mecab option partial, since it is more of a command-line feature

  • 2011/01/27: 0.4.1 release.

    • Tweaking the description in natto.gemspec a bit

  • 2011/01/26: 0.4.0 release.

    • Added support for mecab option input-buffer-size
    • Adding CHANGELOG file
    • Continuing update of documentation

  • 2011/01/22: 0.3.0 release.

    • Refactoring of Natto::Binding to make mecab methods available as class methods
    • Refactoring of Natto::DictionaryInfo to override to_s method to return filename
    • Refactoring of Natto::MeCab to use class methods in Natto::Binding
    • Refactoring and logical separation of test cases
    • Continuing update of documentation

  • 2011/01/19: 0.2.0 release.

    • Added support for mecab option allocate-sentence
    • Continuing update of documentation

  • 2011/01/15: 0.1.1 release.

    • Refactored Natto::DictionaryInfo#method_missing
    • Continuing update of documentation

  • 2011/01/15: 0.1.0 release.

    • Added accessors to Natto::DictionaryInfo
    • Added accessor for version in Natto::MeCab
    • Continuing update of documentation

  • 2011/01/13: 0.0.9 release.

    • Further development and testing for mecab dictionary access/destruction
    • Continuing update of documentation

  • 2011/01/07: 0.0.8 release.

    • Adding support for accessing dictionaries
    • Further tweaking of documentation with markdown

  • 2010/12/30: 0.0.7 release.

    • Adding support for all-morphs and partial options
    • Further updating of documentation with markdown

  • 2010/12/28: 0.0.6 release.

    • Correction to natto.gemspec to include lib/natto/binding.rb

  • 2010/12/28: 0.0.5 release. (yanked)

    • On-going refactoring
    • Project structure refactored for greater maintainability

  • 2010/12/26: 0.0.4 release.

    • On-going refactoring

  • 2010/12/23: 0.0.3 release.

    • On-going refactoring
    • Adding documentation via yard

  • 2010/12/20: 0.0.2 release.

    • Continuing development on proper resource deallocation
    • Adding options hash in object initializer

  • 2010/12/13: Released version 0.0.1.

    • Initial release
    • The objective is to provide an easy-to-use, production-level Ruby binding to MeCab