23. A system according to claim 17 , wherein the means for automatically developing a set of speech dialog prompts includes: means for developing a set of annotated transcription samples from the annotated transcription corpus by determining for selected annotated transcription samples one or more characteristic keywords associated with one or more of the semantic meanings; and means for dynamically developing a dialog prompt for a current user input based on a determination of a best matching annotated transcription sample for the current user input.
17. A system employing at least one hardware implemented computer processor for developing a voice user interface for a statistical semantic system, the system comprising; means for defining a set of semantic meanings that reflect semantic classification of a user input dialog; and means for automatically developing from an annotated transcription corpus a set of speech dialog prompts for directing user inputs to corresponding final semantic meanings.