Prof. HUANG Chu-Ren, Department of Language Science and Technology

From Sensory Modalities to Embodied Cognition: Sensory Lexicon and Corpus-Driven Studies. JWLLP-34: The 34th Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing in part concurrently with NextEdu-207: The 207th meeting of Association for Next-Generation Higher Education. Kobe Gakuin University, in conjunction with JWLLP Steering Committee; Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Waseda University; Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development, Waseda University, Kobe, Japan, 5 – 7 September 2025.

Abstract
Embodiment is a cornerstone concept for theories of cognition, especially but not limited to embodied cognition. Embodiment asymmetry, on the other hand, has provided the most convincing evidence in support of embodied cognition. Yet the degrees of embodiment, as the most salient measurement of embodiment and the empirical basis of embodiment asymmetry, have been reported based on subjective judgement only in the literature. The first empirical and quantifiable measurement of the degrees of embodiment will be introduced in this talk. The Perceived Strength of Embodiment (PSE, Huang et al. 2025) was developed from the observations that sensory words are the direct records of how we perceive and interact with our environment. We propose that the perceived degrees of embodiments of the lexicon can be measured by their correlation with embodied concepts: i.e. sensory or motor concepts. The PSE will be explicated with a couple of studies to confirm its validity.