The Georgetown-IBM experiment was an influential demonstration of machine translation, which took place on January 7, 1954. Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Developed jointly by the Georgetown University and IBM, the experiment involved fully automatic translation of more than sixty Russian sentences into English. Georgetown University is a Jesuit Private university located in Georgetown Washington D International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States
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. Organic chemistry is a discipline within Chemistry which involves the scientific study of the structure properties composition reactions, and preparation The translation was done using a IBM 701 mainframe computer. The IBM 701, known as the Defense Calculator while in development was announced to the public on April 29,
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. Computational linguistics is an Interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of Natural language from a computational 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. ALPAC (Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee was a committee of seven scientists led by John R Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar.