1. A bilingual authoring apparatus comprising: a user interface for inputting partially translated text including a text portion in a source language and surrounding or adjacent text in a target language; a bilingual dictionary associating words and phrases in the target language and words and phrases in a source language; and a context-sensitive translation tool communicating with the user interface, the context sensitive translation tool receiving the partially translated text and providing at least one proposed translation in the target language of the text portion in the source language, the at least one proposed translation in the target language being derived from the bilingual dictionary based on contextual analysis of at least a portion of the partially translated text, wherein the context-sensitive translation tool includes a semantic dictionary lookup module performing a monolingual contextual analysis of the text portion in the source language conditional upon the text portion in the source language including more than one word or category.