Editing Machine translation (section)

===1950s===
The first researcher in the field, [[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], began his research at MIT (1951). A [[Georgetown University]] MT research team, led by Professor Michael Zarechnak, followed (1951) with a public demonstration of its [[Georgetown-IBM experiment]] system in 1954. MT research programs popped up in Japan<ref>{{cite book|last1=上野|first1=俊夫|title=パーソナルコンピュータによる機械翻訳プログラムの制作|date=1986-08-13|publisher=(株)ラッセル社|location=Tokyo|isbn=494762700X|page=16|language=ja|quote=わが国では1956年、当時の電気試験所が英和翻訳専用機「ヤマト」を実験している。この機械は1962年頃には中学1年の教科書で90点以上の能力に達したと報告されている。(translation (assisted by [[Google Translate]]): In 1959 Japan, the [[w:jp:電気試験所|National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology]](AIST) tested the proper English-Japanese translation machine ''Yamato'', which reported in 1964 as that reached the power level over the score of 90-point on the textbook of first grade of junior hi-school.)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/computer/dawn/0027.html | title=機械翻訳専用機「やまと」-コンピュータ博物館 | access-date=4 April 2017 | archive-date=19 October 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019171540/http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/computer/dawn/0027.html | url-status=live }}</ref> and Russia (1955), and the first MT conference was held in London (1956).<ref name="Nye">{{cite journal|last1=Nye|first1=Mary Jo|title=Speaking in Tongues: Science's centuries-long hunt for a common language|journal=Distillations|date=2016|volume=2|issue=1|pages=40–43|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/speaking-in-tongues|access-date=20 March 2018|archive-date=3 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803130801/https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/speaking-in-tongues|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Babel">{{cite book|last1=Gordin|first1=Michael D.|title=Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English|date=2015|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago, Illinois|isbn=9780226000299}}</ref>

[[David G. Hays]] "wrote about computer-assisted language processing as early as 1957" and "was project leader on computational linguistics
at [[RAND Corporation|Rand]] from 1955 to 1968."<ref>{{cite news
|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
|quote=wrote about computer-assisted language processing as early as 1957.. was project leader on computational linguistics at Rand from 1955 to 1968.
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/28/obituaries/david-g-hays-66-a-developer-of-language-study-by-computer.html
|title=David G. Hays, 66, a Developer Of Language Study by Computer
|author=Wolfgang Saxon
|date=July 28, 1995
|access-date=7 August 2020
|archive-date=7 February 2020
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200207035914/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/28/obituaries/david-g-hays-66-a-developer-of-language-study-by-computer.html
|url-status=live
}}</ref>