7. An apparatus for retrieving documents from a database, as in claim 6, wherein: said computer computes a score for each of said permutations of said translated terms against each document of said database having text in said second language wherein said score indicates a measure of relevance of each permutation to each document.
8. An apparatus for retrieving documents from a database, as in claim 7, wherein: said computer retrieves documents from said database based on said score.