19. The method of claim 1 , wherein the translation scoring function is a log-linear model of the general form: 
 score( t 1 |s 1 )=1/ z exp(Σ m=1 M λ m h m ( s 1 ,t 1 ))  (1), where s 1 represents a source language text string, t 1 represents a candidate translation of the source string in the target language, h m represents one of M features, λ m is a respective estimated parameter for the feature, and Z is an optional normalization constant.
19. The method of claim 1 , wherein the translation scoring function is a log-linear model of the general form: 
 score( t 1 |s 1 )=1/ z exp(Σ m=1 M λ m h m ( s 1 ,t 1 ))  (1), where s 1 represents a source language text string, t 1 represents a candidate translation of the source string in the target language, h m represents one of M features, λ m is a respective estimated parameter for the feature, and Z is an optional normalization constant. 20. The method of claim 19 , wherein M is at least 9.