The alignment produced by the automatic methods can be very useful for Machine Translation (MT). This paper, therefore, proposes the combination of two syntactic tree alignment methods - <cite>[Lavie et al. 2008</cite> ] (a bottom-up approach) and [Tinsley et al. 2007 ] (a topdown approach) -aiming at improving their performance evaluated on Brazilian Portuguese (pt) and English (en) pair of languages.