16. A system for providing a spoken dialog interface to a website in at least one of an HTML markup language and an XML markup language, the system comprising: a first module controlling a processor, for each node within the website, to select a list of anchor texts that describe content beneath each respective node, wherein each anchor text is selected based on a term density associated with a percentage of salient words within a phrase relative to a total number of words in the phrase and on whether a respective anchor text contains at least one similar salient word to anchor texts already in a node summary comprise at least two anchor texts selected from the list of anchored texts; a second module controlling the processor to organize the list of anchor texts into the node summary; and a third module controlling the processor to utilize the node summary to generate prompts to a user via the spoken dialog interface in a live spoken dialog, wherein nodes in the website are matched with open-ended user spoken input and prompts from the spoken dialog interface are seeking the open-ended user spoken input are independent of the nodes in the website.
16. A system for providing a spoken dialog interface to a website in at least one of an HTML markup language and an XML markup language, the system comprising: a first module controlling a processor, for each node within the website, to select a list of anchor texts that describe content beneath each respective node, wherein each anchor text is selected based on a term density associated with a percentage of salient words within a phrase relative to a total number of words in the phrase and on whether a respective anchor text contains at least one similar salient word to anchor texts already in a node summary comprise at least two anchor texts selected from the list of anchored texts; a second module controlling the processor to organize the list of anchor texts into the node summary; and a third module controlling the processor to utilize the node summary to generate prompts to a user via the spoken dialog interface in a live spoken dialog, wherein nodes in the website are matched with open-ended user spoken input and prompts from the spoken dialog interface are seeking the open-ended user spoken input are independent of the nodes in the website. 17. The system of claim 16 , wherein each anchor text is further selected based on whether the anchor text contains a noun term.