ALPAC
US government committee on computational linguistics, active 1964–1966. Its 1966 report concluded machine translation was costlier and less accurate than human translation, leading to cuts in MT funding.
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The ALPAC Report on Machine Translation
In 1966, the Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee (ALPAC), convened by the United States National Research Council, published a report concluding that machine translation was slower, less accurate, and twice as expensive as human translation, leading to a sharp reduction in US government funding for machine translation research.