Patent ID: 8239762

Claim:
A method for adapting a text, the method comprising: electronically receiving an original text; determining a relevance value for a plurality of sentences in the original text, wherein a higher relevance value is assigned to sentences with more relevance to subject matter of the original text; identifying at least one portion of the original text to adapt based on the relevance values for the plurality of sentences and based on a language proficiency level of a reader; determining an adaptation to be applied to the at least one portion of the original text in order to generate adapted text to facilitate reader comprehension; applying the adaptation to the at least one portion of the original text; wherein the adaptation includes identifying a difficult word in the original text with a measure of difficulty meeting a preselected value, and determining one or more synonyms of the identified difficult word; displaying the adapted text; and automatically displaying a marginal note along with the adapted text wherein the marginal note includes the one or more synonyms of the identified difficult word.