21. A machine translation system for translating an input in a first language into an output in a second language, the system comprising: a processor; a computer storage medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions for configuring the processor to implement system components comprising: a parser for parsing the input into an input semantic representation; a search component configured to find a set of transfer mappings, wherein each transfer mapping includes an input semantic side that corresponds with portions of the input semantic representation; a decoding component configured to score each of the set of transfer mappings that corresponds with a select portion of the input semantic representation and to select which of the transfer mappings that correspond with the select portion of the input semantic representation has a highest score, wherein scoring each of the set of transfer mappings includes combining scores of the highest scoring mappings for each child node of the select node not covered by the transfer mapping with the score of the transfer mapping; and a generation component configured to generate the output based on the selected transfer mapping.
21. A machine translation system for translating an input in a first language into an output in a second language, the system comprising: a processor; a computer storage medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions for configuring the processor to implement system components comprising: a parser for parsing the input into an input semantic representation; a search component configured to find a set of transfer mappings, wherein each transfer mapping includes an input semantic side that corresponds with portions of the input semantic representation; a decoding component configured to score each of the set of transfer mappings that corresponds with a select portion of the input semantic representation and to select which of the transfer mappings that correspond with the select portion of the input semantic representation has a highest score, wherein scoring each of the set of transfer mappings includes combining scores of the highest scoring mappings for each child node of the select node not covered by the transfer mapping with the score of the transfer mapping; and a generation component configured to generate the output based on the selected transfer mapping. 22. The machine translation system of claim 21 , wherein the decoding component scores each transfer mapping by using a plurality of statistical models.