16. The speech processing system using the module of claim 14 , wherein the module configured to calculate further calculates the intersection of the modified word lattice and a finite state machine that consists of all of the salient grammar fragments.
14. The speech processing system using the module of claim 10 , wherein the module configured to convert conform further calculates an intersection of the modified word lattice and a finite state machine including a plurality of salient grammar fragments and determines a classification type for the input utterance based on the calculated intersection.