CMU has a Center for Machine Translation
http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/CMT-home.html which includes some cool
projects like WebKB which tries to gather knowledge off the Web. (Lycos
originated in this Center.) It also has a Language Technologies Institute
http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/, but it's not clear how they overlap.

They have some software free, including the CMU Statistical Modeling
Language Toolkit at http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/speech/SLM_info.html.  I
also found a natural language parser at
http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/areas/nlp/misc
/alvey/0.html but it requires paying a licensing fee for a decryption key.

Mark

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