alpac-report-1966-cut-mt-funding

Summary

A 1966 government-commissioned review concluded that a flagship machine translation project had dramatically overstated its results, and that credibility failure triggered an abrupt withdrawal of public funding from the field. For the system, this matters because it shows how a single trust collapse, rather than a technical limitation, was enough to freeze an entire research pipeline for roughly a decade, making funding continuity highly sensitive to overpromising.