Provided are a reading comprehension assistance system and a reading comprehension assistance method for enabling input of natural language as a query sentence and presenting, to a reader, a location highly relevant to the input sentence. The reading comprehension assistance system includes: a document reading unit that reads a subject document; a document dividing unit that divides the subject document into a plurality of blocks; a first distributed representation acquisition unit that acquires distributed representations of words for each of the plurality of blocks; a query sentence reading unit that reads a query sentence; a second distributed representation acquisition unit that extracts words included in the query sentence and acquires distributed representations of the words; and a similarity degree acquisition unit that compares the distributed representations of the words between the query sentence and each of the plurality of blocks, and derives a similarity degree. The similarity degree acquisition unit: searches the words included in the blocks for a word that matches a word included in the query sentence; and for a matching word, derives a similarity degree between the distributed representations of the word in the blocks and the distributed representations of the word in the query sentence.
READING COMPREHENSION ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND READING COMPREHENSION ASSISTANCE METHOD