15. A non-transitory computer readable medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor for performing a method for building a translation lexicon from non-parallel corpora, the method comprising: identifying identically spelled words in a first corpus and a second corpus, the first corpus including words in a first language and the second corpus including words in a second language, wherein the first corpus and the second corpus are non-parallel and are accessed by the machine translation system; generating a seed lexicon by the machine translation system, the seed lexicon including identically spelled words; and expanding the seed lexicon by the machine translation system by identifying possible translations of words in the first and second corpora using one or more clues.
15. A non-transitory computer readable medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor for performing a method for building a translation lexicon from non-parallel corpora, the method comprising: identifying identically spelled words in a first corpus and a second corpus, the first corpus including words in a first language and the second corpus including words in a second language, wherein the first corpus and the second corpus are non-parallel and are accessed by the machine translation system; generating a seed lexicon by the machine translation system, the seed lexicon including identically spelled words; and expanding the seed lexicon by the machine translation system by identifying possible translations of words in the first and second corpora using one or more clues. 16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 wherein said expanding comprises using the identically spelled words in the seed lexicon as accurate translations.