6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining a plurality of bridge-based alignments between the source language and the target language using a plurality of respective bridge languages.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining a plurality of bridge-based alignments between the source language and the target language using a plurality of respective bridge languages. 7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising: using each of the determined plurality of bridge-based, alignments to generate respective candidate translations of the input text.