13. A computer-readable storage device having instructions stored which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising: receiving a search query, wherein the search query is: formatted according to a standard language for containing and annotating interpretations of user input, the standard language being different than a language the search query was recorded in; and based on a natural language spoken query from a user; retrieving an N-best list of recognition results based on the search query; transmitting the N-best list of recognition results to a plurality of user devices comprising a first user device and a second user device; after presenting the N-best list on the plurality of user devices, receiving disambiguation input from the first user device, the disambiguation input comprising a vocal disambiguation input and a gesture disambiguation input, the disambiguation input indicating an entry in the N-best list; and transmitting to the second user device additional information associated with the entry based on the disambiguation input; wherein the additional information is a map indicating an address for the entry.
13. A computer-readable storage device having instructions stored which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising: receiving a search query, wherein the search query is: formatted according to a standard language for containing and annotating interpretations of user input, the standard language being different than a language the search query was recorded in; and based on a natural language spoken query from a user; retrieving an N-best list of recognition results based on the search query; transmitting the N-best list of recognition results to a plurality of user devices comprising a first user device and a second user device; after presenting the N-best list on the plurality of user devices, receiving disambiguation input from the first user device, the disambiguation input comprising a vocal disambiguation input and a gesture disambiguation input, the disambiguation input indicating an entry in the N-best list; and transmitting to the second user device additional information associated with the entry based on the disambiguation input; wherein the additional information is a map indicating an address for the entry. 15. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13 , wherein the standard language is an extensible multimodal annotation markup language from a consortium.