| Georgetown-ibm Experiment |
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| CATEGORIES ABOUT GEORGETOWN-IBM EXPERIMENT | |
| computational linguistics | |
| machine translation | |
| SHOPPER'S DELIGHT | |
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Conceived and performed primarily in order to attract governmental and public interest and funding by showing the possibilities of machine translation, it was by no means a fully-featured system: It had only six grammar rules and 250 items in its vocabulary. Apart from general topics, the system was specialised in the domain of Organic Chemistry . The translation was done using a IBM 701 mainframe computer. Widely covered by the media and perceived as a success, the experiment did encourage governments (not only the U.S. one) to invest into the field of Computational Linguistics . The authors claimed that within three or five years, machine translation would be a solved problem. However, the real progress was much slower, and after the ALPAC report in 1966 , which found that the ten years long research had failed to fulfill the expectations, the funding was dramatically reduced. EXTERNAL LINKS |