ASR and NLP Toolkit/Software

• AT&T FSM Library
• Brill’s POS Tagger
• Charniak’s Parser
• CMU-Cambridge Statistical LM Toolkit
• CMU Sphinx
• HTK Speech Recognition Toolkit
• Mallet from Umass
• Michael Collins’s Parser
• MSState ASR Toolkit
• Praat
• SRI Language Modeling Toolkit
• TnT POS Tagger
• Transformation-based Learning (fnTBL)
• YamCha

Corpora

• DUC Corpus
• eXtended WordNet
• HowNet (Chinese Knowledge Base)
• ICSI FrameNet
• ICSI Meeting Corpus
• LDC (Linguistic Data Consortium)
• Senseval Data
• WordNet

ASR Research Sites

• BBN
• Cambridge University Engineering Department (CUED)
• Carnegie Mellon University (Speech)
• International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)
• IBM
• IDIAP
• ISIP MSState
• Johns Hopkins University (CLSP)
• Microsoft
• MIT
• Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI)
• Speech at Purdue University
• University of Colorado, Boulder (CSLR)
• SRI STAR Lab
• University of Washington (SSLI)
• USC (SAIL)

NLP Research Sites

• Brown University (BLLIP)
• Carnegie Mellon University (LTI)
• Columbia University (Natural Language Processing Group)
• Cornell University
• International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)
• Microsoft Research
• New York University (Proteus Project)
• SRI AI-NLP
• Stanford University
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Maryland (CLIP)
• University of Massachusetts
• University of Michigan (CLAIR)
• University of Texas at Dallas (Human Language Technology Research Institute)
• USC/ISI NLG

Stanford’s list contains more links to various NLP stuff.

Speech and Language Conferences

• ICASSP 2005 Philadelphia, USA, March 19-23, 2005
• ACL 2005 Ann Arbor, USA, July 25-30, 2005
• EuroSpeech 2005 Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8, 2005
• ASRU 2005 Cancun, Mexico November 27-30, 2005
• TREC 2005
• ICASSP 2006 Toulouse, France, May 15-19, 2006
• ICSLP 2006 Pittsburgh, USA, September 17-21, 2006
• ICASSP 2007 Hawaii, USA, 2007

Some Applications/Demos

• AnswerBus Question/Answering
• NewsInEssence News summarization
• SpeechBot Audio search engine
• START Question/Answering
• WorldLingo Machine translation
• A9 Information retrieval

Of course, Google has Information retrieval, Text summarization, and Machine translation.