Here are some useful NLP-related links. However, links to resources for learning about NLP and NLP and NLP-related topics are in nlp_papers.
UT professors doing work related to NLP:
UT professors doing other machine learning work:
Here are some departments that UT Austin compling professors and students have connections or affiliations with. (In no particular order.) Undergraduates at UT Austin interested in graduate studies in computational linguistics should consider applying to these departments.
See also List of NLP-CL courses - ACLWiki for a list of NLP-related courses at various schools.