http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=8106
“WordNet, an electronic lexical database, is considered to be the most important resource available to researchers in computational linguistics, text analysis, and many related areas. Its design is inspired by current psycholinguistic and computational theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexicalized concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.”
http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrennie/WordNet/
A perl module for MIT’s WordNet.
“The Natural Language Processing Group at Stanford University is a team of faculty, postdocs, and students who work together on algorithms that allow computers to process and understand human languages. Our work ranges from basic research in computational linguistics to key applications in human language technology, and covers areas such as sentence understanding, probabilistic parsing and tagging, biomedical information extraction, grammar induction, word sense disambiguation, and automatic question answering.”
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/nlp/
“The goal of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) group is to design and build software that will analyze, understand, and generate languages that humans use naturally, so that eventually you will be able to address your computer as though you were addressing another person.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing
Wikipedia definition for Natural Language Processing.
http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AITopics/NaturalLanguage
AAAI page for Natural Language Processing.
