1. A method for processing spoken language comprising: converting spoken words into a text word sequence; tagging words in the text word sequence with part-of-speech (POS) tags; tagging edited words in the text word sequence using a disfluence identifier that operates with a feature set created with techniques comprising: matching only the highest level POS tags in a multi-level hierarchy of such tags; and, parsing the text word sequence into machine instructions with the aid of POS-tag and edited-word-tag information.