In user tests for the "add a link" workflow, we found some evidence that users are more likely to read the context of the sentence with the active link suggestion if the sentence is highlighted. This may cause them not to zoom in to just the word, but rather to consider whether it should be linked in the context of the whole sentence. See screenshot from prototype below.
In this research spike, we want to find out how we might be able to parse sentences out and highlight them.