%0 Journal Article %J Machine Translation %D 1993 %T A first-pass approach for evaluating machine translation systems %A Jordan,P.W. %A Dorr, Bonnie J %A Benoit,J.W. %X This paper describes a short-term survey and evaluation project that covered a large number of machine translation products and research. We discuss our evaluation approach and address certain issues and implications relevant to our findings. We represented a variety of potential users of MT systems and were faced with the task of identifying which systems would best help them solve their translation problems. %B Machine Translation %V 8 %P 49 - 58 %8 1993/// %G eng %N 1