Reference:

Timo Honkela and Klaus Förger. Modeling action verb semantics using motion tracking. In Valeri Mladenov, Petia D. Koprinkova-Hristova, Günther Palm, Alessandro E. P. Villa, Bruno Apollini, and Nikola Kasabov, editors, Proceedings of ICANN 2013 - 23rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, pages 312–318, 2013.

Abstract:

In this article, we consider how semantics of action verbs can be grounded on motion tracking data. We present the basic principles and requirements for grounding of verbs through case studies related to human movement. The data includes high-dimensional movement patterns and linguistic expressions that people have used to name these movements. We discuss open issues and possibilities related to symbol grounding. As a conclusion, we find the grounding to be useful when reasoning about the meaning of words and relationships between them within one language and potentially also between languages.

Suggested BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{HonkelaForger13,
    author = {Timo Honkela and Klaus F{\"o}rger},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of ICANN 2013 - 23rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks},
    editor = {Valeri Mladenov and Petia D. Koprinkova-Hristova and G{\"u}nther Palm and Alessandro E. P. Villa and Bruno Apollini and Nikola Kasabov},
    language = {en},
    pages = {312-318},
    title = {Modeling Action Verb Semantics Using Motion Tracking},
    year = {2013},
}