@inproceedings{jindal-etal-2025-bridging,
    title = "Bridging the Embodiment Gap in Agricultural Knowledge Representation for Language Models",
    author = "Jindal, Vasu  and
      Ju, Huijin  and
      Lyu, Zili",
    editor = "Zhao, Jin  and
      Wang, Mingyang  and
      Liu, Zhu",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2025.acl-srw.68/",
    pages = "929--938",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-254-1",
    abstract = "This paper quantifies the ``embodiment gap'' between disembodied language models and embodied agricultural knowledge communication through mixed-methods analysis with 78 farmers. Our key contributions include: (1) the Embodied Knowledge Representation Framework (EKRF), a novel computational architecture with specialized lexical mapping that incorporates embodied linguistic patterns from five identified domains of agricultural expertise; (2) the Embodied Prompt Engineering Protocol (EPEP), which reduced the embodiment gap by 47.3{\%} through systematic linguistic scaffolding techniques; and (3) the Embodied Knowledge Representation Index (EKRI), a new metric for evaluating embodied knowledge representation in language models. Implementation results show substantial improvements across agricultural domains, with particularly strong gains in tool usage discourse (58.7{\%}) and soil assessment terminology (67{\%} reduction in embodiment gap). This research advances both theoretical understanding of embodied cognition in AI and practical methodologies to enhance LLM performance in domains requiring embodied expertise."
}