4. The computer-implemented process of claim 1 wherein the blocking operation further comprises finding similar target language translations by finding target language translations comprising at least one identical single word.
1. A computer-implemented process, comprising: receiving a parallel corpus of a source language and a target language; applying a machine translation training process to the parallel corpus to generate a cross-lingual phrase table comprising a plurality of source language phrases, each source language phrase having at least one target language translation; applying a blocking operation to the cross-lingual phrase table to group phrases of the source language into blocks by searching the cross-lingual phrase table to find blocks of two or more source language phrases that share similar translations in the target language; searching each of the different source language phrases in each block to identify a stem of a word of the source language, the stem in each block comprising a same sequence of characters occurring in each of the different source language phrases of that block; searching each of the different source language phrases in each block to find a plurality of affixes of the stem of that block, each affix in each block comprising a sequence of characters preceding or following the characters comprising the stem in any of the different source language phrases in that block; generating a set of morphemes comprising the stems and affixes of words of the source language; in response to receipt of a user query in the source language, applying the set of morphemes to automatically create one or more different forms of one or more words of the user query; and performing an expanded query search using the automatically created different forms of the words of the user query.