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machine translation

Automated translation of text between languages by software, an early and ongoing challenge in AI and NLP research.

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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.