My research interests lie in communication, cognitive science and language production or language generation by and large. Starting from user needs and empirical findings (psycholinguistics, neurosciences) I try to build tools helping people to acquire the skill of speaking or writing in a foreign language and in their mother tongue. My current research foci comprise four topics:
1° Message-planning: creation of an interface (i.e. linguistically motivated ontology augmented with a graph generator), to support conceptual authoring (message composition);
2° Outline-planning: help authors to perceive possible links between their ideas to produce well-organized thoughts, i.e. coherent disco...