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I need a conditional admission because I cannot speak english fluency
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That can be a big problem. What may complicate things even more is your choice of specialty. Since you want to specialize in NLP/CL, which, especially at US universities, is focused more on English than other languages, e.g.
WordNet and the
Brown Corpus, I would recommend only applying when your TOEFL and other verbal scores are good enough to at least meet the minimum requirements for regular admission. On the positive side, having fluency in two languages is of obvious benefit when it comes to machine translation.
Certainly, with enough study time and especially with the assistance of an English-speaking tutor, you can get a good enough score on the TOEFL. (In any case, I just don't have any other ideas, e.g. I don't know of any schools that don't require TOEFL scores. Though some schools have lower minimum TOEFL requirements than others, I don't know which schools these are and they certainly wouldn't be in the top 20.)