48. A system adapted to process speech, comprising: an input receiving an array of conceptual components forming words; a processor, adapted to (a) generate a set of candidate parts of speech from each word; (b) permute at least a portion of the candidate parts of speech from each array; (c) produce a plurality of potentially valid syntactic structures from the permuted candidate parts of speech; (d) for a plurality of potentially valid syntactic structures, generate a conceptual representation thereof based on a database of conceptual information comprising parts of speech and a dictionary; (e) determine at least one anomaly criterion for each conceptual representation; and (f) disambiguate between at least two potentially valid syntactic structures based on the corresponding conceptual representations, in dependence on the determined at least one anomaly criterion; and an output responsive to the disambiguation.
48. A system adapted to process speech, comprising: an input receiving an array of conceptual components forming words; a processor, adapted to (a) generate a set of candidate parts of speech from each word; (b) permute at least a portion of the candidate parts of speech from each array; (c) produce a plurality of potentially valid syntactic structures from the permuted candidate parts of speech; (d) for a plurality of potentially valid syntactic structures, generate a conceptual representation thereof based on a database of conceptual information comprising parts of speech and a dictionary; (e) determine at least one anomaly criterion for each conceptual representation; and (f) disambiguate between at least two potentially valid syntactic structures based on the corresponding conceptual representations, in dependence on the determined at least one anomaly criterion; and an output responsive to the disambiguation. 52. The system of claim 48 , wherein the processor is further adapted to use the conceptual representation to formulate a response to a speech sample comprising an inquiry.