Patent ID: 11880653
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
identifying, by one or more processing units, a first term in a digital content in response to a first user action by a user on the first term, the first action requesting explanation of the first term;
displaying, by the one or more processing units, a first definition of the first term within a user interface (UI), the first definition selected from a set of candidate definitions;
identifying, by the one or more processing units, a first new term in the first definition that the user does not understand in response to the user selecting the first new term within the UI and executing a UI element within the UI indicating that the user does not understand the first new term;
calculating, by the one or more processing units, a level of user understanding on the set of candidate definitions by subtracting a word frequency value of the first new term within the set of candidate definitions from a word frequency sum value of entity words within the first definition excluding the first term with respect to the set of candidate definitions;
determining, by the one or more processing units, that the level of user understanding exceeds a predefined threshold;
selecting, by the one or more processing units and based on the determining, an alternative definition of the first term that does not include the first new term from the set of candidate definitions; and
displaying, by the one or more processing units, explanation information within the UI, wherein the explanation information includes the alternative definition.