title: THE "POWER" OF TEXT PRODUCTION ACTIVITY IN COLLABORATIVE MODELING : NINE RECOMMENDATIONS TO MAKE A COMPUTER SUPPORTED SITUATION WORK creator: Alamargot, Denis creator: Andriessen, Jerry subject: Machine Learning subject: Cognitive Psychology subject: Behavioral Analysis description: Language is not a direct translation of a speaker’s or writer’s knowledge or intentions. Various complex processes and strategies are involved in serving the needs of the audience: planning the message, describing some features of a model and not others, organizing an argument, adapting to the knowledge of the reader, meeting linguistic constraints, etc. As a consequence, when communicating about a model, or about knowledge, there is a complex interaction between knowledge and language. In this contribution, we address the question of the role of language in modeling, in the specific case of collaboration over a distance, via electronic exchange of written textual information. What are the problems/dimensions a language user has to deal with when communicating a (mental) model? What is the relationship between the nature of the knowledge to be communicated and linguistic production? What is the relationship between representations and produced text? In what sense can interactive learning systems serve as mediators or as obstacles to these processes? publisher: Laurence Erlbaum Associated contributor: Baker, M. contributor: Brna, P. contributor: Stenning, K. contributor: Tibergien, A. date: 2002 type: Book Chapter type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/3969/1/Alamargot%26Andriessen2002.pdf identifier: Alamargot, Denis and Andriessen, Jerry (2002) THE "POWER" OF TEXT PRODUCTION ACTIVITY IN COLLABORATIVE MODELING : NINE RECOMMENDATIONS TO MAKE A COMPUTER SUPPORTED SITUATION WORK. [Book Chapter] relation: http://cogprints.org/3969/