ALPAC 1966 Machine Translation Evaluation Engine

1. Lexical Lookup & Syntactic Parse D3.js SYNTAX PATHWAY

Select Historical Test Sentence (1950s–1960s Cold War Suite):

English Source: "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

Literal Interlingual: Дух бодр, плоть же неощутима.

Raw Mechanical Back-Translation: "The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten."

Select Ambiguous Polysemous Word to Inspect:

Dictionary Entries for "spirit":

2. ALPAC Quality & Economic Workbench 1966 METRIC MODEL

ALPAC Fidelity Score

2.1 / 9.0

(Severely Distorted)

ALPAC Intelligibility

4.5 / 9.0

(Barely Comprehensible)

ECONOMIC COST ANALYSIS (per 1,000 words)

Human Post-Editor Labor Rate: $5.00 / hr

Computing Mainframe Operational Cost: $12.00 / 1k words

Direct Professional Human Translation $20.00 / 1k words

Raw MT Machine Cost + Human Post-Editing $38.50 / 1k words

VERDICT: Unviable — Raw MT + Post-Editing costs $38.50 per 1k words vs. $20.00 per 1k words for Direct Human Translation.

ALPAC EVALUATION SUMMARY: Intelligibility 4.5 / 9.0, Fidelity 2.1 / 9.0, MT + Post-Editing Cost $38.50 / 1k words.