17. The computer-readable medium as in claim 16 wherein the item matching is performed by the search recognition technology by matching the shadow table data to the intermediate form.
17. The computer-readable medium as in claim 16 wherein the item matching is performed by the search recognition technology by matching the shadow table data to the intermediate form. 18. The computer-readable medium of claim 17 wherein the receiving step comprises receiving an SQL function having at least a representation of the utterance as an argument.