As high-quality MT proved elusive (Bar-Hillel, 1960) , there grew a consensus on the need for better evaluation and more basic research in the new fields of formal and computational linguistics. This consensus culminated in the famously critical ALPAC (Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee) report of 1966 of (Pierce et al., 1966 that led in the mid 1960s to a dramatic cut in funding for MT in the US. As MT research lost academic respectability, the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics dropped MT from its name. Some MT developers, however, persevered, and there were early MT systems like Météo, which translated weather forecasts from English to French (Chandioux, 1976) , and industrial systems like Systran.