# Word Segmentation - breaks up the sequence of characters in a text by locating the word boundaries - [Maximum Matching Algorithm](Maximum%20Matching%20Algorithm.md) - [Forward Backward Matching](Forward%20Backward%20Matching.md) - [Statistical Word Segmentation](Statistical%20Word%20Segmentation.md) - [Lexical Word Segmentation](Lexical%20Word%20Segmentation.md) - [Hybrid Word Segmentation](Hybrid%20Word%20Segmentation.md)