15. The language reordering system of claim 14 wherein said preprocessing module is further configured to receive a word string in said first natural language and utilize said reordering knowledge to reorder words from said word string into reordered word strings.
14. A language reordering system for use in statistical machine translation (SMT), said language reordering system comprising: a computer; a training database for storing training data comprising sentences in a first natural language paired with sentences in a second natural language; an alignment model implemented by the computer and configured to match words and phrases in said first natural language to words and phrases in said second natural language, said alignment model utilizing said training data to generate training samples identifying syntactic differences between said first natural language and said second natural language; and a preprocessing module implemented by the computer and coupled with said training database and said alignment model, said preprocessing module configured to generate a body of reordering knowledge based on a syntax of said first natural language and on a plurality of alignment matrices that map first sample sentences in the first natural language with second sample sentences in the second natural language.