Natural Language Processing has two major sub-categories: text and speech. Both include activities like: recognizing distinct words, deciding what part-of-speech the word is, parsing an utterance into phrases, generating new text / speech and translating text / speech from one language to another. Each of these steps has its own community of researchers.
A 1996 high-level review of: spoken/written input, analysis and understanding, generation, speech output, discourse and dialogue, document processing, multiple languages and modes, transmission and storage, mathematical methods, other resources, how to ev cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey
An institute which applies natural language processing research to problems of human-computer interaction. Selected publications, academic information, and descriptions of current projects. www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au
A part of the Computer Science Bibliography Collection, providing references for papers published through 1994. Searchable, browsable. liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Ai/nlg.html
The practical arm of the ELRA agency, dedicated to solving practical and legal problems in the distribution of language resources. Legal information, catalog of resources for sale, current projects. www.elda.fr
A "concise summary of the capabilities and sources of language processing software available to researchers. It comprises academic, commercial and proprietary software with theory, specifications and terms on which it can be acquired clearly indicated." www.dfki.de/lt/registry
A research program at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on machine translation and speech processing. Includes news, admissions procedures, staff profiles and current projects. www.lti.cs.cmu.edu
Centered around Eugene Charniak's book "Statistical Language Learning", this page features a book review, some notes, sample solutions to exercises in the book, and a small corpus with which to experiment. www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~chrisbr/charniak.html
A formalism for the computational parsing of English. Includes parser with downloadable source code, English-to-German translator, documentation, bibliography. www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link
Megaputer white paper about popular text analysis methods and possible business opportunities. Part of documentation for TextAnalyst software. www.megaputer.com/tech/wp/tm.php3
Project funded by the European Commission which aims at developing a system for setting up multi-lingual information portals using natural language technology. Site is available in English, German, Italian and French, and includes product papers and annu www.mietta.info
Descriptions of projects covering a wide range of language technology applications. Includes a slide presentation and summary chart for each project. www.mitre.org/work/ird_human_language.html
Corporation developing natural language technology solutions for global business. Includes corporate information, some online demos and catalog of services. www.petamem.com
Information about language technology in Australia and New Zealand. Includes mailing lists, general information, and links to research and training in Australasia. www.alta.asn.au
A nonprofit organization serving the commercial language resource community. Site features quarterly newsletter, official definition of "language resource," and member services. www.elra.info
An academic bibliography on this relation between a word's frequency in a text and its place in a ranking of words by frequency. Includes some online texts. www.nslij-genetics.org/wli/zipf/index.html