Method and apparatus for facilitating comprehension of on-line documents.

摘要

The computer implemented method of teaching a specific individual reader and automatically improving comprehensibility of a document on a computer system for the reader, involves storing a business thesaurus file in a storage device accessible by the computer system, and storing a list of reader identified known words in the storage device. Reader defined parameters are associated with the known words in order to ensure the known words are currently known to the reader and all words in the document are automatically compared to the list of known words to identify unknown words. The business thesaurus file is automatically accessed to obtain a synonym for each of the unknown words, the synonym also being on the list of known words. The list of words is automatically updated to remove words that have become not currently known and to add words that have become currently known in accordance with the reader defined parameters. The document is automatically displayed to the reader with the synonym displayed adjacent each of the unknown words corresp to the synonym. The reader learns a meaning of the unknown words and the document is automatically more comprehensible to the reader.