Natural Language

Mingsee, Inc. - Develops systems which enable computers to analyse and "understand" text by using proprietary algorithms.
http://www.mingsee.com/

EAGLES: Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards - A European Commission initiative to provide standards for linguistic engineering applications such as corpora, lexicons, mark-up languages and software. Contains current guidelines.
http://www.ilc.cnr.it/EAGLES96/home.html

References on Zipf's Law - 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.
http://www.nslij-genetics.org/wli/zipf/index.html

Natural Language FAQs - Selected FAQ lists from Usenet groups related to natural language processing.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/faqs/ai/nlp/top.html

European Language Resource Association - A nonprofit organization serving the commercial language resource community. Site features quarterly newsletter, official definition of "language resource," and member services.
http://www.elra.info/

Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology - 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 evalate an NLP program.
http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/

VerbMobil - Mobile translation system for the translation of spontaneous speech in face-to-face situations.
http://verbmobil.dfki.de/overview-us.html

Bibliography of Research in Natural Language Generation - A part of the Computer Science Bibliography Collection, providing references for papers published through 1994. Searchable, browsable.
http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Ai/nlg.html

Grammatical Inference - Repository of information on grammatical inference, automata induction, and language acquisition.
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/gi/gi.html

Australasian Language Technology Association - Information about language technology in Australia and New Zealand. Includes mailing lists, general information, and links to research and training in Australasia.
http://www.alta.asn.au/

Language Technology World - A portal on the range of technologies that deal with human language. News, conferences, projects, organisations, systems, and resources.
http://www.lt-world.org/

"String Searching Algorithms" Book - String Searching Algorithms: exact / approximate string matching, edit distances, common sequences, longest repetitions.
http://homepages.tesco.net/~gas/ssa/

Crux Editions - Scientific publisher and consultant specializing in language technology.
http://www.crux.net/

ELDA: The European Language Resource Distribution Agency - 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.
http://www.elda.fr

SULTRY: The Sydney University Language Technology Research Laboratory - An institute which applies natural language processing research to problems of human-computer interaction. Selected publications, academic information, and descriptions of current projects.
http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/

CMU AI Repository - NLP area - Machine readable parts of NLP textbooks, NLP corpora and dictionaries, fonts, and software.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas/nlp/0.html

Link Grammar - A formalism for the computational parsing of English. Includes parser with downloadable source code, English-to-German translator, documentation, bibliography.
http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/

PetaMem - Corporation developing natural language technology solutions for global business. Includes corporate information, some online demos and catalog of services.
http://www.petamem.com/

Automated Analysis of Natural Language Texts - Megaputer white paper about popular text analysis methods and possible business opportunities. Part of documentation for TextAnalyst software.
http://www.megaputer.com/tech/wp/tm.php3

Language Technologies Institute - A research program at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on machine translation and speech processing. Includes news, admissions procedures, staff profiles and current projects.
http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/

Clyr Inc. - Create custom natural language processing software.
http://www.clyr.com/