1. A method comprising the steps of: determining a user selected passage by highlighting, marking, or cut and pasting a block of text using a computer operable input device; determining user interest information; determining a parsing grammar and a generation grammar; determining a meaning structure based on the selected passage; transforming the user selected passage and the user interest information into condensation transformations comprised of rewrite rules which delete, merge and change elements of the meaning structure; determining meaning distortion constraints beyond which the meaning structure is identified as being distorted after the condensation transformations are applied; determining a packed meaning structure based on the selected passage and the determined parsing grammar; determining a reduced meaning structure based on the condensation transformations, the packed meaning structure, the user information, and the meaning distortion constraints; determining at least one candidate condensation structure based on the reduced meaning structure and a predictive model or a statistical disambiguation model; and determining a user-interest note based on the candidate condensation structures and the determined generation grammar.
1. A method comprising the steps of: determining a user selected passage by highlighting, marking, or cut and pasting a block of text using a computer operable input device; determining user interest information; determining a parsing grammar and a generation grammar; determining a meaning structure based on the selected passage; transforming the user selected passage and the user interest information into condensation transformations comprised of rewrite rules which delete, merge and change elements of the meaning structure; determining meaning distortion constraints beyond which the meaning structure is identified as being distorted after the condensation transformations are applied; determining a packed meaning structure based on the selected passage and the determined parsing grammar; determining a reduced meaning structure based on the condensation transformations, the packed meaning structure, the user information, and the meaning distortion constraints; determining at least one candidate condensation structure based on the reduced meaning structure and a predictive model or a statistical disambiguation model; and determining a user-interest note based on the candidate condensation structures and the determined generation grammar. 13. The method of claim 1 , in which the condensation rules are re-write rules.