(USA) 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.
   http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/

(USA) 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.
   http://crl.nmsu.edu/

(UK) Word-Grammar Interest Group  
   A research group which develops and applies the theory of Word Grammar. Site lists members and some relevant publications.
   http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/Word-Grammar/wig-www.htm

(USA) Microsoft NLP Research  
   Information on their projects, people, publications, and employment opportunities.
   http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/nlp/

(UK) 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." Si
   http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~oliphant/lec/index.html

(Austria) 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
   http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/nlu/

(UK) University of Cambridge NLP Group  
   Research projects include ones on language processing resources and tools, logic and formalisms, natural language front ends, speech processing, automatic summarising, text and spoken message retrieval, natural language processing for formal specification
   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/NL/

(UK) Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech, University of Leeds  
   CCALAS is an "umbrella" linking researchers interested in computer analysis of language and speech at the University of Leeds.
   http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/ccalas/

(UK) 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.
   http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/

(Germany) DFKI Language Technology  
   This research lab of the German DFKI research institute has several projects on language technology.
   http://www.dfki.de/lt/

(Canada) 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.
   http://www.fas.sfu.ca/0/cs/research/groups/NLL/toc.html

(USA) 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.
   http://www.ai.sri.com/natural-language/natural-language.html

(Belgium) 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.
   http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/

(UK) University of Sheffield NLP Group  
   "Architectures for NLP, NL Analysis (IE and Dialogue), NL Generation and NLP Resources and Tools." The developers of GATE.
   http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/

(USA) Language Science Research Group, Washington University  
   Research in this group focuses on segmentation and language acquisition.
   http://lsrg.cs.wustl.edu

(USA) MIT Infolab  
   Research group of the MIT AI Laboratory. A key on-line system is START, Natural Language question-answering over several topics.
   http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/infolab/index.html

(Australia) 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.
   http://www.clt.mq.edu.au

(USA) 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.
   http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html

(Spain) 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.
   http://www.lsi.upc.es/~nlp

(Sweden) Human Language Technology group at NADA  
   Performs research within all aspects of human language and computers. Research on spell and grammar checking, text filtering and categorisation, summarisation, text extraction, generation, and information retrieval. Some of the contents are in Swedish.
   http://www.nada.kth.se/theory/humanlang/

(USA) 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.
   http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/NTL/

(UK) 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.
   http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/cluk/

(USA) 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.
   http://www-csli.stanford.edu/

(USA) 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
   http://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/cisd/

(USA) 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.
   http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/CMT-home.html

(USA) 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.
   http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/resnik/psycholinguistics.html

(USA) Xerox Content Analysis  
   A team working on basic products for multilingual language analysis, providing current projects, demos, and an archive of publications. Includes an online demo guessing 47 languages.
   http://www.xrce.xerox.com/competencies/content-analysis/

(Mexico) Natural Language Lab of the National Politechnic Institute  
   The homepage of the head of this lab. Links to nearly all products of the Lab. Areas of interest are computational syntax, semantics, anaphora resolution, lexical resources. The Lab organizes an annual international conf, see www.cicling.org.
   http://www.gelbukh.com

(France) Language, Information and Representation -- LIMSI  
   Research on knowledge and reasoning, document processing, interpretation, generation and dialogue processing, and question/answering. Links to members, topics, reports. Versions in English and French.
   http://www.limsi.fr/Recherche/LIR/PageLIRgb.html

(Greece) NCSR "Demokritos", Software & Knowledge Engineering Laboratory  
   NCSR "DEMOKRITOS" is the biggest state-run research centre in Greece. The Software & Knowledge Engineering Lab (SKEL) at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of NCSR develops technologies that address the emerging problem of i
   http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/

(Australia) Sydney Language Technology Research Group  
   A University of Sydney research group. Research on machine learning, XML/SGML markup, and tagging.Projects,resources,applications.
   http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~rcdmnl/

(India) Language Technology Research at IITK  
   A research group from the Indian Institute of Technology. Varied research including machine translation and processing of Hindi.
   http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/langtech/hist.htm

(USA) Cornell Natural Language Processing Group  
   Information about people, projects, publications, datasets, and courses. Research on an wide range of areas.
   http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/NLP/

(USA) Natural Language Theory and Technology group at PARC  
   Provides information about the people and projects in the NLTT group at PARC. Includes a short history and a list of selected papers. Research includes parsing and Lexical Functional Grammar.
   http://www.parc.com/istl/groups/nltt

(India) Language Technology Research at AU-KBC, Chennai  
   The group focusses on developing tools, technologies and products for Indian languages especially for Tamil. Research projects include Machine Translation, Information Retrieval(IR), Information Extraction(IE) and developing tools and lexical resources in
   http://www.au-kbc.org/research_areas/nlp.html

(Italy) 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.
   http://tcc.itc.it/

(USA) Machine Learning Research Group - UTCS  
   This research group "focuses on applying both empirical and knowledge-based learning techniques to natural language processing, text mining, recommender systems, inductive logic programming, knowledge and theory refinement, planning, and intelligent
   http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ml/

(USA) The Unsupervised Learning Group (ULG) at UT Austin  
   ULG "is a group of graduate students from the Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering departments, who share interests in data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, pattern recognition and related areas."
   http://www.lans.ece.utexas.edu/ulg/

(UK) Natural Language Processing Group at the University of Edinburgh  
   This is the Department of Artificial Intelligence's Natural Language Processing group. Research on natural-language interfaces, representations of meaning, and the mathematical study of the properties of linguistic notations and rule systems.
   http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/groups/nlp/NLP_home_page.html

(UK) University of Essex CL Research Group  
   Group working on computational linguistics with a strong emphasis on constraint-based linguistics. Site includes member pages, online papers.
   http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/research/clgroup/

(Spain) UNED NLP Group, Madrid  
   Natural Language Group at the Spanish National Distance University (UNED). Research on natural language processing applied to information access, evaluation of information access systems, and acquisition and representation of lexical and grammatical knowl
   http://nlp.uned.es/

(China) Natural Language Processing Lab -- NLPLab  
   NLPLab in the Northeastern University focuses on scientific research and education in Natural Language Processing (especially in Chinese language processing). The lab started NLP research in the early 1980s.
   http://www.nlplab.cn

(UK) HCRC - Human Communication Research Centre  
   An interdisciplinary research group at the University of Edinburgh with interests in dialogue, mechanisms of language processing, graphics & language, and technology.
   http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/

(UK) ICCS - Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems  
   An institute at the University of Edinburgh that focuses on research on communication among humans and between humans and machines using text, speech, and graphics, and the design of interactive dialog systems.
   http://www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk/

(USA) Human Language Technology Research Institute  
   A University of Texas research group. Research in NLP and speech recognition and synthesis. Links to people, projects, publications.
   http://www.hlt.utdallas.edu

(USA) Intelligent InformationAccess Group, MITRE  
   MITRE's research efforts in the area of information access includes work in linguistics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
   http://www.mitre.org/tech/itc/g063/

(Australia) CSIRO ICT Centre on Delivering Actionable Information  
   Focus on delivering information "that is relevant to and appropriate for users receiving it". Research areas include Natural Language Processing (or Language Technology), User Modelling, Multimodal Interaction, Interactive Information Retrieval
   http://www.ict.csiro.au/DAI/

(USA) CNLP - Center for Natural Language Processing, Syracuse University  
   This center focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology related to Information Retrieval and Question Answering.
   http://cnlp.org

(UK) The Natural Language Processing Group at the London South Bank University  
   Research on various areas of natural language processing, intelligent agents and information retrieval. Links to projects, publications, and tutorials on NLP.
   http://www.scism.sbu.ac.uk/inmandw/nlp/

(UK) University of Sheffield Information Retrieval Group  
   The primary research areas of the group include statistical information retrieval techniques, multimedia browsing and retrieval, and personal information management and retrieval.
   http://ir.shef.ac.uk/

(USA) 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.
   http://nlp.cs.jhu.edu/nlp/

(UK) University of Sussex at Brighton  
   Research on corpus annotation, formalisms, lexical acquisition, parsing
   http://www.informatics.susx.ac.uk/research/nlp/index.html

(Netherlands) Language and Inference Technology group  
   This group is part of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam. Research on representational and algorithmic aspects of computational linguistics and computational logic. Links to news, people, publications,
   http://lit.science.uva.nl/

(Thailand) SIIT Knowledge Information & Data Management Laboratory  
   Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology's center of research in knowledge discovery, information engineering, speech and natural language processing.
   http://kind.siit.tu.ac.th/

(Greece) National Technical University of Athens - Natural Language Processing Lab  
   (Greece) National Technical University of Athens, Natural Language Processing Lab - http://ntua.ntua.gr/nlp/ Research related to Greek language including linguistic knowledge representation, computational grammars, semantic WEB and terminology. The site i
   http://thais.cs.ntua.gr/

(Thailand) Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory  
   TCL carries out research on knowledge, language and information, including Human Language Technology, Intelligent Information Infrastructure and Open Source Software related for language processing.
   http://www.tcllab.org/