Tools
Links
Natural Language Software Registry
A directory of academic, commercial and proprietary software with specifications and licensing terms. From DFKI Saarbrücken.
Phrasys Natural Language Processing
A variety of services for natural language technology developers, including consultancy, commercial software and freeware. Features a Java component useful for string analysis.
GATE: General Architecture for Text Engineering
A computer architecture for a broad range of Natural Language Processing tasks, available under the GNU Public License. Abundant documentation, Java class library, web-based demos.
TextAI: Text Analysis International
Provides NLP applications based on its proprietary VisualText technology. Product and service information, online software tour, some documentation.
Cogilex
Company offering expert services and customized tools for natural language processing. Site features demo download of the "QuickTag and QuickParse" utility for Windows, also online tools.
Thistle
http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/software/thistle/demos/index.html
A Java GUI editor for editing tree diagrams (such as those employed in constraint-based grammars), existing in both applet and standalone forms. Sample trees and editors.
Annotate
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/sfb378/negra-corpus/annotate.html
Tool for semi-automatic graphic annotation of corpora. License, documentation, screenshot. Requires GCC and MySQL, in addition to registration.
Morphological and Orthographic Tools for English
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/carroll/morph.html
UNIX tools for the analysis and synthesis of text, from Sussex's John Carroll. GZIP downloads, descriptions, related publications.
KPML Access Page
http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/langpro/kpml/README.html
Graphically based language engineering program, developed for working with large-scale grammars under the Systemic Formal Linguistics framework. Downloadable program images, documentation, resources and source code.
GroupLens
http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/GroupLens/
An experimental collaborative filtering service based on "Better Bit Bureaus" which is itself a collaborative venture between Paul Resnik of the Center for Coordination Science at MIT and Brad Miller and others at the University of Minnesota
OpenNLP
http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/
Collaborative organization for open source projects related to natural language processing. Lists ongoing projects and documents proposed standard Java and XML APIs.
Connexor Parsers
Language parsers and taggers for English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Finnish and Swedish. On-line parser demos and limited documentation available.
AFGL Project: Affix Grammars over a Finite Lattice
A system of public domain software for natural language processing. Includes a formalism for compact grammar description, parser generation system, transduction tool.