4. The machine translation system of claim 1 wherein the translation component generates a plurality of rank ordered translation hypotheses and wherein the re-ranking component re-ranks the plurality of rank ordered translation hypotheses based on the grammatical elements assigned to each hypothesis.
4. The machine translation system of claim 1 wherein the translation component generates a plurality of rank ordered translation hypotheses and wherein the re-ranking component re-ranks the plurality of rank ordered translation hypotheses based on the grammatical elements assigned to each hypothesis. 6. The machine translation system of claim 4 wherein the re-ranking component generates the plurality additional textual of translation hypotheses by varying the grammatical elements assigned to each of the first plurality of rank ordered translation hypotheses.