Is there a RentAPhD.com type service?
trevelyan: I don't know of any site of the sort you're looking for, but if you need Chinese or English machine learning/NLP services, get in touch with us at Language Systems Ltd.http://languagesystems.netWe help people with a subset of NLP problems involving translation, segmentation, content-extraction and search and have cost-advantages from being based in China. That said we can't help you with distributed algorithms and your desire to just hand-stuff-off-to-someone-else is a recipe for disaster unless you can be very clear about what it is EXACTLY that you need your systems to do.Your best approach to working with NLP is generally finding the simplest solution to your problem and then iterating to make it more and more usable. As much work is needed getting and processing data as linking together algorithms. If you blindly outsource you'll get what you ask for, but not what you want.