noun
morphological analyzer
A software tool that segments text into morphemes and assigns part-of-speech tags; used in natural language processing.
形態素解析器を使って、日本語の文章を単語に分割する。
Use a morphological analyzer to segment Japanese text into words.
MeCabは代表的な形態素解析器の一つだ。
MeCab is one of the representative morphological analyzers.
Refers to the process of morphological analysis itself, while 形態素解析器 is the tool that performs it.
Compound of 形態素 (morpheme) + 解析 (analysis) + 器 (device/tool). A modern technical term.