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An AI agent that automatically analyzes the grammar and structure of Japanese text and produces charts showing its complexity.

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  root((japanese corpus agent))
    What it does
      Morphological analysis
      Dependency parsing
      Complexity metrics
    Tech stack
      Python
      MeCab
      spaCy
      LLM API
    Use cases
      Linguistics research
      Text comparison
      Visualization
    Audience
      Researchers
      Language learners

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Measure the syntactic complexity of a Japanese text for linguistics research

USE CASE 2

Compare sentence structure across multiple Japanese documents

USE CASE 3

Generate dependency tree diagrams and complexity charts from Japanese corpora

USE CASE 4

Validate word segmentation results against a known reference text

What is it built with?

PythonMeCabspaCyUniDicLLM API

How does it compare?

albertaworlds/japanese-corpus-syntactic-analysis-agentblue-pen5805/comfyui-krea2-negpipjuliusbrussee/the-prompt-library
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LanguagePythonPythonPython
Last pushed2025-08-04
MaintenanceQuiet
Setup difficultyhardmoderatemoderate
Complexity4/52/52/5
Audienceresearchergeneralgeneral

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1h+

Requires downloading the roughly 500MB UniDic dictionary and an API key for an OpenAI-compatible LLM.

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

So what is it?

This project is an AI agent for analyzing the structure of Japanese text. It takes raw Japanese writing and automatically runs it through several stages: cleaning up the text, breaking it into its smallest meaningful word parts, mapping out how those parts relate to each other grammatically, calculating numeric measures of complexity, and producing charts and diagrams from the results. The system uses a hybrid design. A large language model handles the higher level orchestration, deciding which analysis steps to run and helping interpret the results, while two established linguistics tools, MeCab with the UniDic dictionary and spaCy with a Japanese grammar model, do the precise technical work of splitting words and identifying grammatical relationships. This split matters because the language model can be swapped out for a different one through an environment variable without affecting the underlying linguistic analysis, which runs independently. The metrics it produces cover four areas: counts and variety of word forms, sentence and clause length as a measure of complexity, how far related words sit from each other in a sentence, and side by side comparison of these numbers across multiple texts. Results can be turned into dependency tree diagrams, radar charts, and bar charts, saved as image or PDF files. The authors validated their word counting method against a well known Japanese literary text, Natsume Soseki's Kokoro, and report exact matches with reference figures on several measures. Setting it up requires Python 3.12 or newer, the uv package manager, and an API key for an OpenAI compatible language model service, since the project is built to work with several different model providers rather than one fixed model. It also needs a large Japanese dictionary file, UniDic, which is roughly 500 megabytes and can be installed either as a Python package or downloaded and placed manually into the project folder. The project is released under the MIT license.

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Prompt 1
Help me set up UniDic and spaCy for this Japanese syntactic analysis agent.
Prompt 2
Walk me through running the full pipeline on a Japanese text file, from cleaning to visualization.
Prompt 3
Explain what mean dependency distance measures and why it matters for this tool's output.
Prompt 4
Show me how to switch the LLM backend using the AGENT_MODEL environment variable.

Frequently asked questions

What is japanese-corpus-syntactic-analysis-agent?

An AI agent that automatically analyzes the grammar and structure of Japanese text and produces charts showing its complexity.

What language is japanese-corpus-syntactic-analysis-agent written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, MeCab, spaCy.

What license does japanese-corpus-syntactic-analysis-agent use?

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

How hard is japanese-corpus-syntactic-analysis-agent to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated hard, with roughly 1h+ to a first successful run.

Who is japanese-corpus-syntactic-analysis-agent for?

Mainly researcher.

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