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Oh, you are a bit early... this page isn't ready yet (we know, this wasn't
even cool back in the days of GeoCities, but this is better than just a
message from a web host saying "domain registered, but nothing here").
May we humbly suggest having a look at [brat: a a Web-based Tool
for NLP-Assisted Text Annotation](http://brat.nlplab.org) or
[NERSuite](http://nersuite.nlplab.org) for now?

## What is NLPLab? ##

Okay, we didn't quite get rid of you that easily.
NLPLab is a virtual lab, born out of the idea that collaboration is easiest to
do when there is some infrastructure, that software and resources need to be
maintained after academic institutions "die".
We think that the easiest way to do this is to go virtual (we are not the
first to mention a "virtual" lab, at least
[Tetsuya Sakai](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/tesakai/) has
pointed out that his "lab" is virtual since Microsoft Research Asia does not
have labs).
We host projects and discussion, have a server or two, and if you are
interested, feel free to contact
[<NAME>](http://pontus.stenetorp.se/contact.html).

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NLPLab is a virtual lab, born out of the idea that collaboration is easiest to
do when there is some infrastructure, that software and resources need to be
maintained and hosted after academic institutions "die".
We think that the easiest way to do this is to go virtual (we are not the
first to mention a "virtual" lab, at least
[Tetsuya Sakai][sakai] has pointed out that his "lab" is virtual since
Microsoft Research Asia does not have labs).
In short: We are a non-affiliation affiliation.

As-of-yet, we are trying to find our way and establish a purpose.
Something along the lines of what [<NAME>][eisner] wrote for his 2012
ACL candidacy would be great as inspiration.

[sakai]: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/tesakai/
[eisner]: http://clair.si.umich.edu/aclvote2012/eisner.html

## Resources ##

We have currently have two servers where we host content:

* `weaver` hosted at [Linode][linode] in London, United Kingdom
* `shannon` hosted at [Stacken][stacken] in Stockholm, Sweden
* Our homepages are hosted at [GitHub][github] in San Fransisco, CA, USA

[linode]: http://www.linode.com/
[stacken]: http://www.stacken.kth.se/index.en
[github]: https://github.com/

## Hosted Projects and Resources ##

Although the lab does not endorse specific projects, here are a few that are
hosted on its infrastructure:

* [NERSuite][nersuite], a named entity recognition toolkit
* [Word representations][wordreprs], sharing and evaluating word
    representations
* [brat][brat], a text annotation and visualisation tool

If you have an interesting NLP research project of your own that you are
dedicated to and want to host it somewhere, do get in touch with us.

[brat]: http://brat.nlplab.org/
[nersuite]: http://nersuite.nlplab.org/
[wordreprs]: http://wordreprs.nlplab.org/

## Contact ##

We have [a GitHub page][nlplab_github] where you can display your membership
(if you want to).
For mail contact it is adviced to get in touch with
[<NAME>][stenetorp] for now (we really should have a mailing list).

[nlplab_github]: https://github.com/nlplab
[stenetorp]: http://pontus.stenetorp.se/contact.html

## Todo-list ##

1. Get a mailing list
2. Make this homepage less ugly
3. Adopt a worthy mission
4. Um...?
5. Have a positive influence on the NLP community
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