23. The translation system of claim 17 wherein the capitalization module further includes a punctuation model feature function.
17. A translation system comprising: a device; an automatic translator module executable and stored on the device and configured to automatically convert a capitalized source text to lower case text and translate the lower case text to a target text; an aligner configured to determine an alignment between one or more phrases in the capitalized source text and one or more respective phrases in the target text of a capitalization configuration; and a capitalization module configured to recover a capitalized text from the target text according to capitalization information in the capitalized source text and the target text and the alignment determined by the aligner, and to capitalize the target text, the capitalization of the target text including: generating a plurality of capitalization configurations for the target text; for each capitalization configuration, computing a feature probability for each of a plurality of capitalization model feature functions; associating a feature weight with each capitalization model feature function; applying the associated feature weight to the respective computed feature probability for each of the plurality of capitalization model feature functions; for each capitalization configuration, calculating a capitalization configuration probability based on a weighted sum of the computed feature probabilities and applied feature weights, and based on the alignment between the one or more phrases in the capitalized source text and the one or more phrases in the target text or between the capitalized source text and the capitalization configuration; assigning the calculated capitalization configuration probability to each respective capitalization configuration; and selecting the best capitalization configuration from the plurality of capitalization configurations based on the highest calculated capitalization configuration probability.