Columbia Natural Language Processing Group - Pursues research in natural language generation, concept-to-speech generation, summarization of news, statistical language modeling and digital libraries. Info on their projects, people, publications, software tools, events.

Computing Research Laboratory - Concentrates on multilingual processing of natural language texts. Core research areas are: AI, computational linguistics, and human-computer interaction. Has papers, data, and software.

Word-Grammar Interest Group - A research group which develops and applies the theory of Word Grammar. Site lists members and some relevant publications.

Microsoft NLP Research - Information on their projects, people, publications, and employment opportunities.

Language Evolution and Computation homepage - A University of Edinburgh research unit. "Our research involves applying mathematical and computational modelling techniques to traditional issues in the evolution of communication and language, historical linguistics, and language typology." Site lists group members, online papers, software, and related links.

Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham - Information on their projects, software tools, links to corpus information.

Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence - "Research in modelling and processing human languages, especially for German. This includes constructing linguistic resources (such as lexicons, grammars, discourse models), processing algorithms (such as morphological components, parsers, generators, speech synthesizers, discourse processing components), and application prototypes (such as natural language interfaces, advisory systems and concept-to-speech systems)."

University of Cambridge NLP Group - The history of this group; Project links; links to papers and technical reports.

MITRE NLP Group - The history, people, projects, and publications of NLP at MITRE.

University of Leeds, UK - Pointers to projects and software tools and information about the researchers.

Johns Hopkins University NLP lab - "Committed to finding novel and efficient computational methods that rival human performance in natural language competency tasks." Information on their people, conferences and meetings, links, courses, facilities, software tools.

Edinburgh Language Technology Group - A research and development group working in the area of natural language engineering. The site contains several software tools free to academic research groups.

DFKI Language Technology - This research lab of the German DFKI research institute has several projects on language technology.

Microsoft Research Institute at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia - Intelligent text processing, automatic text generation, connecting language and action.

University of Sussex at Brighton - People, research topics, technical reports and dissertations, info for prospectives students, research seminar series, links.

Simon Fraser University Natural Language Laboratory - "Computers are used to understand the structure and meaning of "natural languages" such as English, French, and Spanish." Machine translation, computer-assisted language learning, information extraction, natural language interfaces. Publications online.

University of Otago, New Zealand - Current projects include: discourse analysis, software authorship verification, speech recognition using neural networks, text and speech semantic parsing. List of publications.

SRI AI Center NLP Program - Information on their projects in multimedia/multimodal interfaces, spoken language systems, written language systems. Links to the projects, publications, staff.

Centre for Computational Linguistics - The main objective of the Centre for Computational Linguistics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is to promote basic research in formal and computational linguistics, and the application of this research in natural language processing.

University of Sheffield NLP Group - "Architectures for NLP, NL Analysis (IE and Dialogue), NL Generation and NLP Resources and Tools." The developers of GATE.

Language Science Research Group, Washington University - Research in this group focuses on segmentation and language acquisition.

MIT Infolab - Research group of the MIT AI Laboratory. A key on-line system is START, Natural Language question-answering over several topics.

Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University - Research on Language Technology, with particular emphasis in practical applications in the short and medium term. Links to research projects and university courses.

Xerox Multilingual Theory and Technology - A team working on basic products for multilingual language analysis, providing current projects, demos, and an archive of publications. Includes the MLTT Language Identifier, an online demo cleverly guessing 47 languages.

Information Sciences Institute - NLG Group - The Natural Language Processing group at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California (USC/ISI) is currently involved in various aspects of computational linguistics/natural language processing.

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya's Natural Language Processing Research Group - Main research fields are related to the use of multilingual lexical resources, information extraction from documents, design of NL interfaces, basic NLP techniques (tagging, parsing, sense disambiguation), NL understanding and Knowledge Representation. Tools and demos available.

Human Language Technology group at NADA - Performs research within all aspects of human language and computers. Links to courses, projects, publications, and reports. Some of the contents are in Swedish.

Neural Theory of Language (NTL) Research Group - A group of scholars at the University of California, Berkeley, studying the connections between neurology, computing and language learning. Current projects, research articles, and an overview of the group's history and purpose.

Computational Linguistics UK - Britain's special interest group for computational linguistics. News, organizational information, and general information on the British natural language processing research community.

CSLI Center for the Study of Information and Technology (CSLI) - An independent research center devoted to research in the emerging science of information, computing, and cognition. Founded by researchers from Stanford University, SRI International, and Xerox PARC.

Cognitive and Communication Technologies Division at ITC-IRST - A research institute of the Instituto Trentino di Cultura focusing on NL generation, information extraction, dialogue and multimodality, linguistic resources and tools, parsing, and formal linguistics.

Conversational Interaction and Spoken Dialogue Research Group - A University of Rochester research group that investigates conversational interaction through the study of machine-human interaction. Program information, current projects, tools for corpus linguistics and discourse transcription, archive of downloadable papers.

Laboratory for Natural Language Engineering - University of Durham - Research on several topics, including the LOLITA system. Links to list of projects, people, publications, Journal of Natural Language Engineering.

Center for Machine Translation - A Carnegie Mellon University research center that focuses on multi-lingual machine translation. Links to projects, personnel, job openings, and technical reports.

Computational Psycholinguistics Research at CLIP - Descriptions of current projects and links to published papers. Covers the areas of syntactic disambiguation, selectional constraints and semantic similarity.