PyCCS (CKIP Chinese Segmentator)
A Python API for CKIP Chinese Segmentator
CKIP (Chinese Knowledge and Information Processing Group) provides a online Chinese segmentation tool (http://ckipsvr.iis.sinica.edu.tw/).
Usage
>>> from PyCCS import ckip
>>> result = ckip.seg('台灣大學語言學研究所')
>>> print result.text()
台灣/Nc 大學/Nc 語言學/Na 研究所/Nc
>>> result.raw
[(u'\u53f0\u7063', u'Nc'),
(u'\u5927\u5b78', u'Nc'),
(u'\u8a9e\u8a00\u5b78', u'Na'),
(u'\u7814\u7a76\u6240', u'Nc')]
All html-like tags will be segmentated normally.
(At CKIP Online Demo, if you input strings containing html-like tag, the results might be weird)
>>> print ckip.seg('<h1>這是html tag</h1>').text()
<h1>/FW 這/Nep 是/SHI html/FW tag</h1>/FW
Limitations
Input encoding should can only be CP950/BIG5
For example, words containing "堃" or "瑠" cannot be segmentated.