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History of MT
The history of machine translation generally starts in the 1950s after the second world war. The Georgetown experiment in 1954 involved fully automatic translation of more than sixty Russian sentences into English. The experiment was a great success and ushered in an era of significant funding for machine translation research. However the real progress was much slower.
Today there are many software programs for translating natural language, several of them online, such as the SYSTRAN system which powers both Google translate and the AltaVista's Babelfish. Although there is no system that provides the holy-grail of "Fully automatic high quality translation" (FAHQT), many systems provide reasonable output.
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