... Translation, vol. 8, No. 2, February 1965] Evaluation of Machine Translations by Reading Comprehension Tests and Subjective Judgments by Sheila M. Pfafflin*, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, ... standing of the translated material. The present study explored two other approaches to the evaluation problem, namely, reading comprehension tests, and judgments of the clarity of meaning of ... level of significance. DISCUSSION OF THE JUDGMENTS OF CLARITY TESTS The finding that mixing the types of translations during judging affects both types of translations, while loss of context...