In my view, the present "critical situation" in M.T., is not due to the fact that genuine Mechanical Translation is inherently impossible, as Bar-Hillel thinks, but to the fact that the mechanizable techniques at present being used to analyse language are not powerful enough to detect the message, or argument, of any particular text. Other papers from this conference online. See Table of Contents with links to online papers from the Proc. 1961 International Conference on Machine Translation of Languages and Applied Language Analysis (http://www.mt-archive.info/NPL-1961-TOC.htm). Proc. 1961 International Conference on Machine Translation of Languages and Applied Language Analysis, pp. 438-475, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1962.