47. The computer-implemented method of claim 41 wherein one rule of the set of rules comprises aligning a first verb node and an associated child node that is not a verb node from one dependency structure to a second verb node of the other dependency structure if the associated child node is already aligned with the second verb node, and either the second verb node has no aligned parent nodes, or the first verb node and the second verb node have associated child nodes aligned with each other.
41. A computer-implemented method of associating dependency structures from two different languages stored on a tangible computer readable medium, wherein the dependency structures comprise nodes organized in a hierarchical parent/child structure, the computer-implemented method comprising: aligning nodes of the dependency structures with correspondences on the tangible medium with a computer as a function of a set of rules comprising at least two different rules where aligned nodes are determined based on the parent/child structure, and wherein aligning does not require beginning with either a top or bottom node of the hierarchical parent/child structure of the dependency structures, and wherein an order of aligning nodes is based on linguistic relevance, beginning with aligning nodes having more linguistic relevance than aligning nodes having less linguistic relevance; and providing an output from the computer indicative of the alignment of the dependency structures.