STRUCTURAL TRANSFER RULES FOR KAZAKH-TO-ENGLISH MACHINE TRANSLATION IN THE FREE/OPEN-SOURCE PLATFORM APERTIUM

This paper describes process of building structural transfer rules for Kazakh-to-English machine translation system on free/open-source Apertium platform. Structural transfer rules are used for translating texts from Kazakh to English by couple of rules in three stages. This paper shows how sentences in Kazakh are transformed to English sentences, what types of phrases and attributes are used. Results are presented by comparing Apertium Kazakh—English system with other online translators.