I hope readers aren't getting the impression from this article that the code examples provided are the correct way to do word segmentation in English. (Though

I hope readers aren't getting the impression from this article that the code examples provided are the correct way to do word segmentation in English. (Though I understand this is an article about interviewing and not about word segmentation. And this might be considered a preprocessing step for doing things correctly...) Norvig gives a very approachable version of English word segmentation that uses a language model below. http://norvig.com/ngrams/ http://norvig.com/ngrams/