23. 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 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 three different rules, wherein the dependency structures comprise a set of unaligned nodes and wherein after each of the rules are applied any aligned nodes are removed from the set of unaligned nodes before applying another rule, 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 aligning is not based on top-down processing or bottom-up processing of nodes; and providing an output from the computer indicative of the alignment of the dependency structures.
23. 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 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 three different rules, wherein the dependency structures comprise a set of unaligned nodes and wherein after each of the rules are applied any aligned nodes are removed from the set of unaligned nodes before applying another rule, 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 aligning is not based on top-down processing or bottom-up processing of nodes; and providing an output from the computer indicative of the alignment of the dependency structures. 27. The computer-implemented method of claim 23 wherein one rule of the set of rules comprises aligning a set of nodes if a bidirectionally unique translation exists.