Ideas for final projects

A list of projects by type, including other past projects (well beyond 50 projects...)
Your first place to look: http://www.nltk.org/projects has over 40 projects, divided into computational vs. linguistically oriented, using NLTK, plus further links like the OpenNLP project, which is here: http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/projects.html. And then there's more:

1. Morphology and words (11 project suggestions)
2. Part of speech Tagging (8 project suggestions)
3. Parsing (13 project suggestions)
4. Semantic interpretation & Lexical conceptual Structure (21 project suggestions)

Links to a potpourri of recent past projects (the scope varies tremendously - don't be intimidated!)

1. Learning quantifiers from examples, a Bayesian approach
2. Parsing seminar announcements (syntax to semantics)
3. Identifying and classifying newsgroup requests
4. Learning spanish verbal morphology by Bayesian methods
5. Email processing (Sorry, the demo links won't work!)
6. Intelligent pronoun resolution
7. Extending semantic interpretation to handle quantifiers
8. Adding general inference to semantic interpretation
9. Italian-English machine translation using lexical-conceptual structure
10. Parsing conjunctions in generalized phrase structure grammar
11. Parsing prescriptions for medical databases