<s>
The	O
Georgetown	B-General_Concept
–	I-General_Concept
IBM	I-General_Concept
experiment	I-General_Concept
was	O
an	O
influential	O
demonstration	O
of	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
,	O
which	O
was	O
performed	O
on	O
January	O
7	O
,	O
1954	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Developed	O
jointly	O
by	O
the	O
Georgetown	O
University	O
and	O
IBM	O
,	O
the	O
experiment	O
involved	O
completely	O
automatic	B-Application
translation	I-Application
of	O
more	O
than	O
sixty	O
Russian	O
sentences	O
into	O
English	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Conceived	O
and	O
performed	O
primarily	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
attract	O
governmental	O
and	O
public	O
interest	O
and	O
funding	O
by	O
showing	O
the	O
possibilities	O
of	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
,	O
it	O
was	O
by	O
no	O
means	O
a	O
fully	O
featured	O
system	O
:	O
It	O
had	O
only	O
six	O
grammar	O
rules	O
and	O
250	O
lexical	O
items	O
in	O
its	O
vocabulary	O
(	O
of	O
stems	O
and	O
endings	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
translation	O
was	O
carried	O
out	O
using	O
an	O
IBM	B-Device
701	I-Device
mainframe	O
computer	O
(	O
launched	O
in	O
April	O
1953	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Georgetown-IBM	B-General_Concept
experiment	I-General_Concept
is	O
the	O
best-known	O
result	O
of	O
the	O
MIT	O
conference	O
in	O
June	O
1952	O
to	O
which	O
all	O
active	O
researchers	O
in	O
the	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
field	O
were	O
invited	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
the	O
conference	O
,	O
Duncan	O
Harkin	O
from	O
US	O
Department	O
of	O
Defense	O
suggested	O
that	O
his	O
department	O
would	O
finance	O
a	O
new	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Leon	O
Dostert	O
had	O
been	O
invited	O
to	O
the	O
project	O
for	O
his	O
previous	O
experience	O
with	O
the	O
automatic	O
correction	O
of	O
translations	O
(	O
back	O
then	O
'	O
mechanical	B-Application
translation	I-Application
 '	O
)	O
;	O
his	O
interpretation	O
system	O
had	O
a	O
strong	O
impact	O
on	O
the	O
Nuremberg	O
War	O
Crimes	O
Tribunal	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
authors	O
claimed	O
that	O
within	O
three	O
or	O
five	O
years	O
,	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
could	O
well	O
be	O
a	O
solved	O
problem	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
the	O
real	O
progress	O
was	O
much	O
slower	O
,	O
and	O
after	O
the	O
ALPAC	B-General_Concept
report	I-General_Concept
in	O
1966	O
,	O
which	O
found	O
that	O
the	O
ten	O
years	O
of	O
long	O
research	O
had	O
failed	O
to	O
fulfill	O
the	O
expectations	O
,	O
funding	O
was	O
reduced	O
dramatically	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
demonstration	O
was	O
given	O
widespread	O
coverage	O
in	O
the	O
foreign	O
press	O
,	O
but	O
only	O
a	O
small	O
fraction	O
of	O
journalists	O
drew	O
attention	O
to	O
previous	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
attempts	O
.	O
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