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/

Language Technology Group Helpdesk FAQ Questions and answers on a wide range of language processing topics, with keyword index. http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/helpdesk/faq/index.html

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/

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

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

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

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://linkage.rockefeller.edu/wli/zipf/

Tabularum A resource site for research into the automatic understanding of tabular information, including information extraction from tables. http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~matth/research/tables/

The Natural Language Software Registry 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." http://www.dfki.de/lt/registry/

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/

Teaching materials for statistical NLP 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. http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~chrisbr/charniak.html

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

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

ACL NLP/CL Universe A searchable directory of sites on natural language processing and computational linguistics. http://perun.si.umich.edu/~radev/u/db/acl/

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

DISC Best Practice Guide Information, standards and tools to support the development of Spoken Language Dialogue Systems. http://www.disc2.dk/

Fieldmethods.net News pieces and discussion fora for various fields of natural language technology. http://fieldmethods.net

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

INFOLINGUA : Natural Language Processing References in computational linguistics, morphology, parsing, lexicography, text understanding, text generation, interfaces, automatic translation, CALL, speech processing, quantitative linguistics, automatic indexing, character recognition, literary computing, dictionaries. http://pages.infinit.net/consab/infolingua