17. A system employing at least one hardware implemented computer processor for developing a voice user interface for a statistical semantic system, the system comprising; means for defining a set of semantic meanings that reflect semantic classification of a user input dialog; and means for automatically developing from an annotated transcription corpus a set of speech dialog prompts for directing user inputs to corresponding final semantic meanings.
17. A system employing at least one hardware implemented computer processor for developing a voice user interface for a statistical semantic system, the system comprising; means for defining a set of semantic meanings that reflect semantic classification of a user input dialog; and means for automatically developing from an annotated transcription corpus a set of speech dialog prompts for directing user inputs to corresponding final semantic meanings. 24. A system according to claim 17 , wherein the annotated transcription corpus is a training corpus used for training one or more semantic classification processes associated with directing user inputs.