morphological analyzer
A software tool that segments text into morphemes and assigns part-of-speech tags; used in natural language processing.
Use a morphological analyzer to segment Japanese text into words.
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.