Your job for this assignment is to track down an interesting NLP tool, and to give a short (5 minutes) report on it. Reports will be in class on Wednesday, Nov 12. Demos are good if they can be performed within the allotted time.
When you find a tool that you want to report on, lay claim to it by announcing your tool on the class mailing list cs322-00-f08@lists.carleton.edu.
Of course, search engines may help you with your search, but you also might take a look at the NLP/CL Universe and the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Have fun.