29. The system of claim 25 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to: identify a conversational goal associated with the utterance, roles associated with the user and one or more other participants in the current conversation, and an information allocation among the user and the one or more other participants in the current conversation; and classify one or more of the utterance or the current conversation into a conversation type based on one or more of the identified conversational goal, the identified roles, or the identified information allocation, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to establish the intended meaning based on the conversation type.
29. The system of claim 25 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to: identify a conversational goal associated with the utterance, roles associated with the user and one or more other participants in the current conversation, and an information allocation among the user and the one or more other participants in the current conversation; and classify one or more of the utterance or the current conversation into a conversation type based on one or more of the identified conversational goal, the identified roles, or the identified information allocation, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to establish the intended meaning based on the conversation type. 30. The system of claim 29 wherein the established intended meaning comprises a hypothesis having a degree of certainty about the intent that the user had in speaking the one or more words in the utterance.