Introduction

Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. It studies the problems of automated generation and understanding of natural human languages (Wikipedia).

Major tasks in NLP:

• Automatic summarization
• Information extraction
• Information retrieval
• Machine translation
• Named entity recognition
• Natural language generation
• Question answering
• Spoken dialogue system
• Text simplification

An interesting way to standarization: LMF

Interesting resources:

Wikipedia - WikiPrep see also in sourceforge.

WordNet Similarity - WNSimilarity

Links resources (Stanford University)

Links resources (Proxem)

NLP Companies:

Bitext

Interesting manuals:

Unix for poets (Kenneth Church) shows how to use this OS to NLP tasks.