Syntactic analysis is performed on an input and on entries of a bilingual example database using at least one parse tree. The parse trees, formed using a context-free grammar, comprise a number of nodes and each node comprises at least one production rule. Furthermore, at least one node comprises nested...http://www.google.de/patents/US6243669?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6243669 - Method and apparatus for providing syntactic analysis and data structure for translation knowledge in example-based language translation