Zili Lyu


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2025

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Bridging the Embodiment Gap in Agricultural Knowledge Representation for Language Models
Vasu Jindal | Huijin Ju | Zili Lyu
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)

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.