A recent blog post by Simon Willison:

Extremely promising new Python NLP tool: spaCy (commercial open-source software):
Unfortunately, it is only able to deal with English input at the moment and installation on Windows seems to be tricky. The project is currently under intense development and it will be interesting to check the following links on a regular basis:
License: AGPLv3 (free for open-source projects), changed to MIT License (27 Sep 2015)
Source: http://spacy.io/index.html#detailed-speed-comparison [accessed: 24/07/2015]
Link to community-edited list on Pansop
Source: http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/python-nlp-tools [accessed: 24/07/2015]
New release of German language extension textblob-de for the popular textblob package:
See overview of working features compared to main package.
Overview for development branch: Click here.
New release of German language extension textblob-de for the popular textblob package:
See overview of working features compared to main package.
Overview for development branch: Click here.