KyTea is a general text analysis toolkit, with a focus on Japanese and other languages requiring word or morpheme segmentation.

Detailed usage information can be found at http://www.phontron.com/kytea

To build KyTea, run

 $ ./configure
 $ make

If there is no configure file in the directory (for example, if you checked the source out from GitHub), you must rebuild the configure file using the following command:

 $ autoreconf -i