Some details you might miss just reading the paper: Victor Yngve, the author, became the first president what would become the ACL not long after publishing th

Some details you might miss just reading the paper: Victor Yngve, the author, became the first president what would become the ACL not long after publishing this. This paper is showing off the language COMIT he developed. While it may not look like much, it directly led to the development of SNOBOL and other string processing languages. This paper was a warm up to working on machine translation; turns out that progress in the field was slow and led to what might be called the first AI Winter, back in 1966! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALPAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALPAC It seems that he moved away from Computational Linguistics to more theoretical work after that, but he was publishing books even after 2000. He passed away in 2012, and you can read his obituary from the ACL here: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/J12-3001 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/J12-3001