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 * [NLTK](http://www.nltk.org/) - A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.
 * [Pattern](http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pattern) - A web mining module for the Python. It has tools for natural language processing, machine learning, among others.
 * [TextBlob](http://textblob.readthedocs.org/) - Providing a consistent API for diving into common NLP tasks. Stands on the giant shoulders of NLTK and Pattern.
-* [jieba](https://github.com/fxsjy/jieba#jieba-1) - Chinese Words Segementation Utilities.
+* [jieba](https://github.com/fxsjy/jieba#jieba-1) - Chinese Words Segmentation Utilities.
 * [SnowNLP](https://github.com/isnowfy/snownlp) - A library for processing Chinese text.
 * [loso](https://github.com/victorlin/loso) - Another Chinese segmentation library.
 * [genius](https://github.com/duanhongyi/genius) - A Chinese segment base on Conditional Random Field.