What it does

This is a curated awesome-list that catalogs resources for Korean-language NLP: morphological analyzers, datasets like Sejong and NamuWiki dumps, papers, lectures, and community links. It covers both Korean-specific tools (Hannanum, Kkma, Komoran, Mecab-ko) and language-agnostic packages with Korean bindings (KoNLPy, FastText, gensim).

The interesting bit

The list explicitly splits between “NLP of Korean text” and “NLP information written in Korean” — a useful distinction if you’re hunting for tools versus hunting for tutorials you can actually read. The maintainer also keeps a live collabedit link for casual contributions, which feels charmingly retro.

Key highlights

• Morpheme analyzers: 12+ options including Java stalwarts (Hannanum, Kkma), C++ workhorses (Mecab-ko), and newer entrants (Rouzeta, seunjeon)
• Datasets: Government corpora (Sejong, KAIST), web dumps (Wikipedia, NamuWiki), and sentiment-labeled data (Naver movie corpus)
• Bindings matter: KoNLPy wraps multiple Java analyzers for Python; kroman ports Hangul romanization across five languages
• Community links: Korean-language NLP conferences since 1989, plus active Facebook groups (Tensorflow KR, AI Korea)
• Odd gems: A crowdsourced Korean profanity dictionary and a TextRank summarizer demo running on Heroku

Caveats

• Several paper links are dead (marked with strikethrough), and the English papers section is empty
• Some tool links point to Korean-only pages or SourceForge projects that may be unmaintained
• The “collabedit” contribution method suggests the list may not see frequent structured updates

Verdict

Worth bookmarking if you’re doing Korean NLP and tired of re-discovering that Mecab-ko exists. Skip it if you need actively maintained, benchmarked comparisons — this is a directory, not a review site.