To be honest, I haven't spent a huge amount of time exploring mecab and chasen, although I probably should. The decision to write our own was partially just bec

To be honest, I haven't spent a huge amount of time exploring mecab and chasen, although I probably should. The decision to write our own was partially just because it seemed like a fun academic exercise, and we learned a lot from building it. We also have some features in mind for the future that it will be useful to have deep control over the the tokenizing and deconjugation, but those haven't made it into the app yet.