The WWW Translation Page from Systran Software will translate any Web page (up to 10KB) to English or to the foreign language of your choice -- French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian. or . [Dianna Husum , WEBster, 29Apr97.] (I couldn't get it to work for French to English. This is an alpha release, and may still have a lot of problems.)

An introductory NLP site is . Or start at the home page of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics (ACL), . [Dragomir R. Radev , comp.ai.nat-lang, 13Apr97.]

C source code and documents about natural language processing can be found at Matthew Probert's . He also offers The Probert Encyclopaedia (in linked HTML format), . [, comp.ai, 12Apr97.]

Prospero Software Ltd (London) makes a part-of-speech tagger and a full syntactic parser for English. Customized versions can be arranged. See . [Mike Oakes , comp.ai.nat-lang, 21Feb97.]

Charles Cameron markets variants of "the Glass Bead Game" devised and described in partial detail by Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse. Players place "ideas" on the board -- a word, quotation, paragraph, poem, book, film, equation, diagram, song, sound, image, natural object, animal, place, date, fiction, etc. -- explicitly stating their links to adjoining ideas that have been placed. Cameron suggests that getting a computer to play would be an interesting exercise in AI. . [, comp.ai, 17May97.]