The conference on mechanical translation

WORK IN THE FIELD of mechanical translation started at MIT in 1951 when Y. Bar-Hillel became perhaps the first full-time worker in the field. In 1952, he organized the first international conference on mechanical translation. It, too, took place at MIT.

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THE FOLLOWING is a report on the proceedings of the first , held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., June 17-20, 1952, and my own reactions.1 At the Conference individuals working on MT in this country and in England met for the first time and presented their different approaches.

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The following report was prepared immediately after the writer's return from the conference. It was written from the viewpoint of an engineer listening to experts in a field far separated from his own. Such judgments as may be found interspersed amongst the reports of individual papers are of an engineering nature, and are not to be construed, as being based upon other than an amateur’s knowledge of linguistic theory.

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