--- abstract: '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? ' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Alamargot given: Denis honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Andriessen given: Jerry honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2002 date_type: published datestamp: 2004-11-29 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/39/69 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Baker given: M. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Brna given: P. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Stenning given: K. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Tibergien given: A. honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 3969 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/3969/1/Alamargot%26Andriessen2002.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: Acquisition Coherence Collaborative learning Communication Comprehension Computers Domain knowledge Generating content Interaction Interface Knowledge Constituting model Knowledge Transforming model Learning Linguistic constraints Mental model Message Modeling Oral Communication Organizing text Planning Planning by analogy Planning by abstraction Pragmatic constraints Problem solving Text Production Reflection Reviewing Rhetoric constraints Romantic Situation model Text Text content Text interpretation Translating Understanding Writing lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:45 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: The Role of Communication in Learning to Model publisher: Laurence Erlbaum Associated refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:54:46 subjects: - comp-sci-mach-learn - cog-psy - behav-anal succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'THE "POWER" OF TEXT PRODUCTION ACTIVITY IN COLLABORATIVE MODELING : NINE RECOMMENDATIONS TO MAKE A COMPUTER SUPPORTED SITUATION WORK ' type: bookchapter userid: 4682 volume: ~