17. A system employing at least one hardware implemented computer processor for developing a voice user interface for a statistical semantic system, the system comprising; means for defining a set of semantic meanings that reflect semantic classification of a user input dialog; and means for automatically developing from an annotated transcription corpus a set of speech dialog prompts for directing user inputs to corresponding final semantic meanings.
17. A system employing at least one hardware implemented computer processor for developing a voice user interface for a statistical semantic system, the system comprising; means for defining a set of semantic meanings that reflect semantic classification of a user input dialog; and means for automatically developing from an annotated transcription corpus a set of speech dialog prompts for directing user inputs to corresponding final semantic meanings. 22. A system according to claim 17 , wherein the means for automatically developing a set of speech dialog prompts includes: means for developing a set of data archetypes from the annotated transcription corpus wherein each data archetype represents one or more annotated transcription samples that are determined to be semantically similar; means for developing a set of semantic meaning archetypes by associating one or more of the data archetypes with each semantic meaning; and means for dynamically developing a dialog prompt for a current user input based on a determination of a best matching semantic meaning archetype for the current user input.