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. 18. The user-interest sensitive note-viewing system as determined by the method of claim 1 comprising: a computer operable memory; an input/output circuit that receives user input and retrieves stored user-interest sensitive notes from memory; and a processor that displays the user-interest sensitive note, wherein the user-interest sensitive note can edited by at least one user.