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Looks pretty nice.

However, the "startup" license model at $9,500 a year really should give better support than "10 emails".

Would be nice if this was offered as an online service - especially if the price point was a lot lower.

Even if you don't use their product, the LingPipe blog is still worth reading.

Can HN recommend any cheaper (free) alternatives for a startup?

Some ideas: Stanford NLP tools, libsvm, Mallet, and some of my own open source projects. That said, LingPipe is well put together, and for some organizations may be a great way to go.

If you like python, try NLTK http://www.nltk.org/

Quickly looking through the javadoc, I can't see anything from LangPipe that's not available in NLTK. NLTK was really fun to use in my project... It's not always nice to look at its internals (in many places it was written by people who know more about NLP than about programming) but even that isn't terrible.

So yes - one more vote for NLTK.

Link Grammar Parser: http://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/

I used Michael Granger's excellent Ruby binding: http://repo.deveiate.org/LinkParser/file/3e46194ad8d6

LingPipe - A tool kit for processing text using computational linguistics