Glossary of Linguistic Terms. Compiled by Dr. Peter Coxhead for his students. Natural Language . A summary by Patrick Doyle. Very informative, though there are some spots that are quite technical.
Abstracts are available online.
Natural Language Understanding . This is an excerpt from the Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, a compendium of hundreds of articles about AI ideas, techniques, and programs being prepared at Stanford University by AI researchers and students from across the country. Empirical Methods in Information Extraction . By Guven Guzeldere and Stefano Franchi. A Performance Evaluation of Text-Analysis Technologies.