libmecab (http://mecab.sourceforge.ne.jp) already has a perl interface
built with it, so why a new module? I just feel that while a subtle
difference, making the perl interface through a tied hash is just...
weird.

So Text::MeCab gives you a more natural, Perl-ish way to access
libmecab!

WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-MeCab/