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

Claim 12:
13. A computer program product, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to:
identify 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;
display a first definition of the first term within a user interface (UI), the first definition selected from a set of candidate definitions;
identify a first new term in the first definition that the user does not understand in response to the user selecting the first term within the UI and executing a UI element within the UI indicating that the user does not understand the first new term;
calculate 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;
determine that the level of user understanding exceeds a predefined threshold;
select an alternative definition of the first term from the set of candidate definitions; and
display explanation information within the UI, wherein the explanation information includes the alternative definition.