Improving Consumer Understanding of Medical Text: Development and Validation of a New SubSimplify Algorithm to Automatically Generate Term Explanations in English and Spanish

Nicholas Kloehn   ¹ , MA, PhD ;   Gondy Leroy   ¹ , MS, PhD ;   David Kauchak   ² , PhD ;   Yang Gu   ¹ , BA ;   Sonia Colina   ³ , PhD ;   Nicole P Yuan   ⁴ , MA, MPH, PhD ;   Debra Revere   ⁵ , MA, MLIS

¹ Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States

² Computer Science Department, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, United States

³ Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States

⁴ Health Promotion Sciences Division, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States

⁵ Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States