At the end of the 1950s, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel was asked by the US government to look into machine translation, to assess the possibility of fully automatic high quality translation by machines.
在1950年代末，美國政府要求研究員野浩樹窪·巴希里（Yehoshua Bar-Hillel）研究可否利用機器執行全自動高質量的翻譯。