---
name: "kytea"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kytea"
version: "0.4.6+dfsg-2"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kytea"
---

# kytea(1)

a word segmentation/pronunciation estimation tool

## NAME

kytea — a word segmentation/pronunciation estimation tool

## SYNOPSIS

**kytea** \[**options**\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **kytea** command.

This manual page was written for the **Debian** distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the GNU **Info** format; see below.

**kytea** is morphological analysis system based on pointwise predictors. It separetes sentences into words, tagging and predict pronunciations. The pronunciation of KyTea is same as cutie.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

### Analysis Options:

- **-model**

  The model file to use when analyzing text

- **-nows**

  Don't do word segmentation (raw input cannot be accepted)

- **-notags**

  Do only word segmentation, no tagging

- **-notag**

  Skip the tag of the nth tag (n starts at 1)

- **-nounk**

  Don't estimate the pronunciation of unknown words

- **-wsconst**

  Specifies character types to not be segmented (e.g. D for digits)

- **-unkbeam**

  The width of the beam to use in beam search for unknown words (default 50, 0 for full search)

- **-debug**

  The debugging level (0=silent, 1=simple, 2=detailed)

### Format Options:

- **-in**

  The formatting of the input  (raw/tok/full/part/conf, default raw)

- **-out**

  The formatting of the output (full/part/conf/eda/tags, default full)

- **-tagmax**

  The maximum number of tags to print for one word (default 3, 0 implies no limit)

- **-deftag**

  A tag for words that cannot be given any tag (for example, unknown words that contain a character not in the subword dictionary)

- **-unktag**

  A tag to append to indicate words not in the dictionary

### Format Options (for advanced users):

- **-wordbound**

  The separator for words in full annotation (" ")

- **-tagbound**

  The separator for tags in full/partial annotation ("/")

- **-elembound**

  The separator for candidates in full/partial annotation ("&")

- **-unkbound**

  Indicates unannotated boundaries in partial annotation (" ")

- **-skipbound**

  Indicates skipped boundaries in partial annotation ("?")

- **-nobound**

  Indicates non-existence of boundaries in partial annotation ("-")

- **-hasbound**

  Indicates existence of boundaries in partial annotation ("\|")

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Koichi Akabe vbkaisetsu@gmail.com for the **Debian** system (and may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.