9. A computer program product in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for execution on at least one processor of a method of developing a voice user interface for a statistical semantic system, the computer program product having instructions for execution on the at least one processor comprising; program code for defining a set of semantic meanings that reflect semantic classification of a user input dialog; and program code for automatically developing from an annotated transcription corpus a set of speech dialog prompts for directing user inputs to corresponding final semantic meanings.
11. A product according to claim 9 , wherein the speech dialog prompts include one or more confirmation prompts for confirming semantic meaning in a given user input.