13. The physical, non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the combinatorial rating includes a probability of objects of certain semantic classes being combined with certain deep slots.
9. A physical, non-transitory computer storage medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which when executed by a computer system cause said computer system to perform a method for machine translation of a source document in an input language to a target document in an output language, the instructions comprising: creating a language-independent semantic structure for each sentence in the source document; generating by a processor of the computer system translation options corresponding to at least portions of each respective sentence in the input language, wherein said generating the translation options is based at least in part on statistics, and wherein said generating the translation options includes: performing a syntactic analysis to determine surface elements associated with the sentence in the input language, and performing a semantic analysis to determine deep elements associated with the sentence in the input language; selecting a translation option for one or more sentences based on ratings associated with the translation options, wherein the ratings associated with the translation options include the use of statistics, wherein the statistics include the use of a combinatorial rating for the surface elements associated with the sentence in the input language and the deep elements associated with the sentence in the input language, wherein the combinatorial rating includes a use of a probability of objects of certain semantic classes being combined with objects of a same or another semantic class; synthesizing an output sentence for the target document corresponding to one or more sentences in the source document based at least in part on one or more respective language-independent semantic structures and a selected translation option; and writing the output sentence for the target document to a component of the computing system.