10. The development framework of claim 8 , wherein one training system comprises a statistical language model training system that is configured to provide a statistical language model for use by a speech recognition engine.
10. The development framework of claim 8 , wherein one training system comprises a statistical language model training system that is configured to provide a statistical language model for use by a speech recognition engine. 11. The development framework of claim 10 , wherein the statistical language training system operates on the extended set of templates in a form in which slots are expressed as slot tokens.