10. A method for localizing a spoken dialog system comprising: accessing source data from a source-language spoken dialog system, the source data including semantic annotations and transcriptions of a plurality of utterances; machine-translating the transcribed utterances into a target language; mapping the semantic annotations that are unaltered to translated transcribed utterances respectively; and training a semantic classifier for the localized spoken dialog system using the machine translated transcriptions and the unaltered source language semantic annotations.
16. The method of claim 10 wherein the machine translation is by any one of: a rule-based machine translator; a statistical machine translator; and a machine translator that is part rule-based and part statistical.