The Stanford Natural Language Processing Group is a research team at Stanford University focused on advancing the field of natural language processing (NLP). They work on developing algorithms and models that enable computers to understand and generate human language, contributing to various applications such as machine translation, sentiment analysis, and information extraction. The group is known for creating influential tools and resources, including the Stanford Parser and Stanford Named Entity Recognizer. Their research often emphasizes the importance of linguistic structure and semantics, aiming to improve how machines interact with human language in a meaningful way.