Some results, problems and limitations The system described is not much more than a proof-of-concept system that still needs to be
extended to reasonably cover all transfer operations needed. Therefore, evaluating the output of the
system using customary evaluation measures such as BLEU (Papineni et al. 2002) is still out of the
question.
Instead, tables Table and Table show how our current prototype performs for some
representative structures covered by the transfer rules currently available (some of them discussed
above). As has been said above, are already at least two MT systems that translate from English to
Kazakh: Sanasoft's and Trident's, both of which can be used online (see Introduction for details);
therefore, we will briefly compare our results to those obtained by the commercial systems.
Table 6 Example machine translation output for some simple phrases and sentences.
