Content conversion system

A computer-implemented method for determining comprehensibility of text, comprising:

• receiving a body of text;
• transform the body of text into segments;
• for each of the segments:
• evaluating a number of independent clauses, a number of dependent clauses, and a number of prepositional phrases in the segment;
• determining a density of clauses based at least in part on the number of independent clauses, the number of dependent clauses, and the number of prepositional phrases in the segment;
• evaluating a number of content words and a number of total words in the segment;
• determining a density of content words based at least in part on the number of content words and the number of total words in the segment;
• evaluating a total number of characters and a number of whitespace characters in the segment;
• determining a ratio of whitespace based at least in part on the total number of characters and the number of whitespace characters in the segment;
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• assign a relative weighting to each of the density of clauses, the density of content words, and the ratio of whitespace;
• and
• determining a comprehensibility level of the body of text based at least in part on the weighted density of clauses, the weighted density of content words and the density of the ratio of whitespace of each of the segments.