2. The method of claim 1 wherein the received input comprises at least one of: received text of speech from a speech recognition system; received text entered on a Web form; received text of instant messaging; and received text of emails.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the received input comprises at least one of: received text of speech from a speech recognition system; received text entered on a Web form; received text of instant messaging; and received text of emails. 3. The method of claim 2 further comprising normalizing the received input by performing at least one of: removing disfluencies from the received input; normalizing vocabulary in the received input; normalizing alphanumeric characters in the received input; correcting misspellings or incorrectly recognized words in the received input; detecting sentence boundaries in the received input; capitalizing letters in sentences in the received input; and detecting call segment boundaries in the received input.