ALPAC

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ALPAC (Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee) was a committee of seven scientists led by John R. Pierce, established in 1964 by the U. S. Government in order to evaluate the progress in computational linguistics in general and machine translation in particular. Its report, issued in 1966, gained notoriety for being very skeptical to research done in machine translation so far and emphasized the need for basic research in computational linguistics; this eventually led the U. S. Government to dramatically reduce its funding of the entire branch.

[edit] References

• John R. Pierce, John B. Carroll, et al., Language and Machines — Computers in Translation and Linguistics. ALPAC report, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Washington, DC, 1966.

[edit] See also

• History of artificial intelligence
• History of machine translation
• AI winter

[edit] External links

• The report accessible on-line (archive.org; may be incomplete)
• ALPAC: the (in)famous report — summary of the report (PDF)

• ALPAC: the report itself (PDF)