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ALPAC

ALPAC (Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee) was a committee of seven scientists led by John R. Pierce, established in 1964 by the United States 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 of…

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ALPAC

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Triples22
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.083333
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related to References · 18
ALPAC → ALPAC Report Archived, Automatic Language Processing Advisory, Carroll, Committee, Computers, DC, John, Language, Linguistics, Machines, National Academy, National Research Council, Pierce, Report, Sciences, Translation, Washington, Wayback Machine
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ALPAC → Archived, PDF, The, Wayback Machine

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machine translation john university pierce language report automatic linguistics corporation committee research 1966 1964 government computational harvard linguist researcher bunker-ramo

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ALPACrelated to External linksThe0.60section
ALPACrelated to External linksArchived0.60section
ALPACrelated to External linksWayback Machine0.60section
ALPACrelated to External linksPDF0.60section
ALPACrelated to ReferencesJohn0.60section
ALPACrelated to ReferencesPierce0.60section
ALPACrelated to ReferencesCarroll0.60section
ALPACrelated to ReferencesLanguage0.60section
ALPACrelated to ReferencesMachines0.60section
ALPACrelated to ReferencesComputers0.60section
ALPACrelated to ReferencesTranslation0.60section
ALPACrelated to ReferencesLinguistics0.60section

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