This report summarizes the capabilities of five computer programs at Yale that do automatic natural language processing as of the end of 1976. For each program an introduction to its overall intent is given, followed by the input/output, a short discussion of the research underlying the program, and a prognosis for future development. The programs discussed are: SAM, a script-based story understanding program; FRUMP, a fast program designed to skim a newspaper looking for events in which it is interested; PAM, a plan based program designed to understand stories that call upon general knowledge of human goals and relationships; TALESPIN, a program intended to make up stories to tell in an interactive mode; and WEIS/POLITICS, a program designed to read newspaper headlines and both code the sentences into a political coding scheme, and simulate a person with an ideological belief system being informed of the event in the headlines. (WBC)