5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the feature function comprises at least one of: a first feature function which models bi-fragment discontinuities within known translations; and a second feature function models bi-fragment reorderings whereby statistically probable reorderings are favored over improbable ones.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the feature function comprises at least one of: a first feature function which models bi-fragment discontinuities within known translations; and a second feature function models bi-fragment reorderings whereby statistically probable reorderings are favored over improbable ones. 6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the feature function models bi-fragment discontinuities by counting the number of gaps within the source and target fragments that make up the translation hypothesis.