On the importance of a rich embodiment in the grounding of concepts: Perspectives from embodied cognitive science and computational linguistics

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 545-558

  Thill, Serge ^a   Padó, Sebastian ^b   Ziemke, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concept grounding; Distributional semantics; Embodiment; Machine language understanding

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGY; ROBOTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COGNITION; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84905039461     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12093     Document Type: Article

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