Embodied Language Learning

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Cassimatis on Language Learning and Physical Learning

Check out

N. L. Cassimatis (2004). Grammatical Processing Using the Mechanisms 
of Physical Inferences. In Proceedings of the Twentieth-Sixth Annual 
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

available at

http://www.cassimatis.com/polyscheme.html

As the author describes it, the paper gives

A model of syntactic parsing model based almost entirely 
on the mechanisms in the physical reasoning model, making 
the case for the cognitive substrate principle.

The author Nick Cassimatis, who is specifically oriented toward creating human-level intelligence, has articulated an explanation of infant-level physical learning in terms of his logic-based AI framework, PolyScheme (in which multiple reasoning algorithms interact using a common predicate-logic language) then shown how the same mechanisms and representations used for infant physical learning can be used for language learning

Goertzel on Embodied and Statistical Language Learning

An argument for a hybrid approach involving embodiment plus more traditional computational linguistics is in the paper

Goertzel, Ben.  A Pragmatic Path Toward Endowing Virtually-Embodied AIs 
with Human-Level Linguistic Capability - IEEE World Congress on Computational 
Intelligence (WCCI) Hong Kong, 2008

at

http://novamente.net/papers/