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American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project - Research into the linguistics of ASL. Information about the group, links to related sites.

CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository: NLP - Natural Language Processing information repository.

Computational Linguistics Department - at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence.

Cyc-NL - Information about the natural language capabilities of the Cyc project/system.

Department of Computational Linguistics - at the Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.

Department of Phonetics and Linguistics - at the University College, London.

ECSA: European Speech Communication Association - Organization promoting speech communication, technology, and research. Site has newsletters and other publications, information about grants, workshops, and events, and special interest groups devoted to more specialized topics.

Edo Nyland's Home Page - Several essays and writings on language origins, including Ogam, Basque, and English.

The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship - "International organization devoted to the scholarly study of the invented languages of JRR Tolkien". Information about the organization, how to join, list of publications.

Emmanuel Giguet - Various papers and projects that he has worked on/written in the field of linguistics. Includes multilingual identification/categorization, French syntactic parser, and others.

Endangered Languages, Endangered Knowledge, Endangered Environments - A conference held in Berkeley, CA, in 1996. Conference schedule, participants, and paper abstracts.

English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus - English/Norwegian linguistic project studying the same documents translated between English and Norwegian.

The Ergativic Stage of Early Proto-Indoeuropean - By Hans-Joachim Alscher. Online essay discusses an early stage of Proto-Indoeuropean and it's development. Discussion is welcomed.

Ethnolinguistics and Phonetics on the Internet - Links to phonetic research resources (mostly research resources) online.

EuroWordNet - Information about the EuroWordNet project, which aims to build a multilingual wordnet database based on the Princeton WordNet.

Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics - Research institute for generative linguistics. Information about the institute, monthly newsletter, publications, conferences, and more.

ICAME: International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English - Information about and collections of English corpora and linguistic/corpus-related software.

Language futures Europe - Collection of essays and news articles on language policy, multilingualism, and language structure and use in Europe and the US. Collected by Paul Treanor.

The Language Representation Database Project - Some information about the project, which aims to build a centralized lexical database storing data from a number of linguistic data sources (Brown Corpus, WordNet, etc.).

Leiden Sign Phonology Group - Research group studying the phonology of signed languages, especially NGT (Netherlands sign language). Information about the group, some online research papers, SignPhon database, and links to sign language sites.

LingNet BBS and other language/linguistics resources - from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center.

The LINGUIST List - Large collection of linguist/linguistic resources (papers, jobs, links, etc) and archives of the LINGUIST mailing list.

Linguistic Data Consortium - At the University of Pennsylvania. Creating, collecting, and distributing linguistic databases, lexicons, and corpora. Extensive information online, limited access to data (many need a license).

Linguistics and Language-Related Pages in Japan - Index of language and linguistic Web sites located in Japan. (Index is in English.)

Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Resources on the Web - Index of NLP/linguistics resources by Rick Wojcik.

Linguistics information at SIL - (Gopher.) Links to many documents relating to linguistics, including organizations, searchable databases, linguistics resources, and more.

Linguistics-Related Organizations - Index from the University of Rochester. Links to linguistics-related organizations with Web pages.

Natural Language Interfaces Group - At the University of Delaware. Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) research, including natural language processing, virtual reality, and graphical language representation. Information about the Group, research, papers, projects, and links to related sites.

Parallel Corpora - Index of projects involving parallel corpora, studying the same document translated into different languages.

Psycholinguistic Database - Data sets from linguistics and psychology. May be useful for 'language or knowledge engineering researchers'.

Rank Xerox Research Centre - Research includes multilingual theory and technology (text analysis and generation). Various projects, including some online demos.

Resources for Tolkienian Linguistics - Index of resources of value to those studying the languages developed by JRR Tolkien, a fantasy author. Includes books, journals, and online resources.

Resources Linguistiques - Index of linguistic/language resources (in French, resources mostly in English).

Revised Etymological Dictionary for English - English wordlist with Basque word origins explained. By Edo Nyland.

SIL International - Language service and education organization. Site includes information about SIL, their work, publications, Rhetorical Structure Theory, software (Mac, Windows, DOS,and Unix) and links to other language resources.

Sites of Significance for Semiotics - Large collection of links related to (and useful for) semiotics ('the study of signs'), somewhat related to linguistics.

SOLE - Students Organization of Linguists in Europe - Holds an annual conference for students of linguistics around the world.

Speech and Language Research Informations - Index of resources dealing with speech and language research. (Not in English.)

Terminology Forum - Large online resource and forum for terminologists and others interested in terms, dictionaries, etc.

TITUS - Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien - Collection of comparative linguistics and Indo-European papers, fonts, and links. Mainly in German (some English).

Vinyar Tengwar - The journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship. Information about subscribing to the journal.

The Visual Phonology Project - Project to develop and research visual audio feedback devices for Deaf infants (to teach them the 'shapes' of sounds).

Web Frequency Indexer - from Georgetown Linguistics. Creates a word frequency index of any text you type (or paste) in.

WordNet - online lexical reference system from Princeton University.

Working with Language - From Peter James Silzer, Biola University. Lecture notes from Dr Silzer's WWL course on languages and linguistics. Includes a list of quotations about language.

WWW Sites for Students of Introductory Linguistics - By Mary Taffet. Dozens of links to Web sites dealing with various aspects of linguistics. Very broad range of links.