61. The method of claim 36 , wherein the representation permits passing a user utterance to a natural language understanding (NLU) engine to extract semantic meaning.
61. The method of claim 36 , wherein the representation permits passing a user utterance to a natural language understanding (NLU) engine to extract semantic meaning. 62. The method of claim 61 , wherein the representation permits using contextual knowledge present in the application state along with the semantic meaning returned by the NLU engine to permit contextual interpretation of the user utterance.