Chatterbots
ALICE, Racter, 05 X-bot Beta, 1001 Questions, 2002 Loebner Prize Contest Home Page, a-bot, AI Buddy, Ai Research, Alex - an artificially inelegant chatbot., ALIMbot, Android, Answerpad
Tools
AFGL Project: Affix Grammars over a Finite Lattic, Annotate, ARIES Natural Language Tools, Banter Technology, Cogilex, Connexor Parsers, GATE: General Architecture for Text Engineering, GroupLens, KPML Access Page, Morphological and Orthographic Tools for English
Turing Test
Article in ACM Crossroads Magazine, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Improving the Turing Test, Loebner Prize Home Page, The Turing Test, The Turing Test and Chinese Room Experiment, Turing Machines and Universes, Turing test and intelligence, Turing Test Page, Turing Test Questions
"String Searching Algorithms" Book
String Searching Algorithms: exact / approximate string matching, edit distances, common sequences, longest repetitions.
ACL NLP/CL Universe
A searchable directory of sites on natural language processing and computational linguistics.
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.
Automated Analysis of Natural Language Texts
Megaputer white paper about popular text analysis methods and possible business opportunities. Part of documentation for TextAnalyst software.
Bibliography of Research in Natural Language Gener
A part of the Computer Science Bibliography Collection, providing references for papers published through 1994. Searchable, browsable.
CMU AI Repository - NLP area
Machine readable parts of NLP textbooks, NLP corpora and dictionaries, fonts, and software.
Crux Editions
Scientific publisher and consultant specializing in language technology.
DISC Best Practice Guide
Information, standards and tools to support the development of Spoken Language Dialogue Systems.
EAGLES: Expert Advisory Group on Language Enginee
A European Commission initiative to provide standards for linguistic engineering applications such as corpora, lexicons, mark-up languages and software. Contains current guidelines.
ELDA: The European Language Resource Distribution
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.
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.
Grammatical Inference
Repository of information on grammatical inference, automata induction, and language acquisition.
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.
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.
Language Technology Group Helpdesk FAQ
Questions and answers on a wide range of language processing topics, with keyword index.
Language Technology World
A comprehensive portal on the wide range of technologies that deal with human language. News, conferences, projects, organisations, systems, and resources.
Link Grammar
A formalism for the computational parsing of English. Includes parser with downloadable source code, English-to-German translator, documentation, bibliography.
MIETTA-II : A Multilingual Information Environment
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 annual reports.
Mingsee, Inc.
Develops systems which enable computers to analyse and "understand" text by using proprietary algorithms.
MITRE Language Technology Projects
Descriptions of projects covering a wide range of language technology applications. Includes a slide presentation and summary chart for each project.
Natural Language FAQs
Selected FAQ lists from Usenet groups related to natural language processing.
PetaMem
Corporation developing natural language technology solutions for global business. Includes corporate information, some online demos and catalog of services.
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.
SULTRY: The Sydney University Language Technology
An institute which applies natural language processing research to problems of human-computer interaction. Selected publications, academic information, and descriptions of current projects.
Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language T
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.
Tabularum
A resource site for research into the automatic understanding of tabular information, including information extraction from tables.
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.
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."
VerbMobil
Mobile translation system for the translation of spontaneous speech in face-to-face situations.