If you are a Java developer there is an extensive list of tutorials for how to build components of NLP systems using LingPipe at http://alias-i.com/lingpipe/demos/tutorial/read-me.html. Full disclosure I wrote some of those tutorials and one of the books below.
There are a few books that are more industrially oriented:
1) Natural Language Processing with Java by Richard M Reese
This covers how to do some common tasks with a range of open source toolkits (including LingPipe).
2) Natural Language Processing with Java and LingPipe Cookbook Paperback
by Breck Baldwin, Krishna Dayanidhi
This book is task driven at the level of "get the component built" and covers the major technologies driving most NLP systems that are text driven. It does not cover translation. It goes into more detail than the first book and has broader coverage than the LingPipe tutorials but is sometimes less detailed than the tutorials.
Breck
