The application of machine learning (ML) methods, a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI), to the solution of electromagnetic boundary value problems (BVPs) is currently a highly active area of research. Deep neural networks such as neural operators (Kovachki et al. 2023) and physics-informed neural networks, in which information about the BVP (and possibly measurement data) is integrated into the loss function of the network, often aim to replace traditional numerical methods such as the finite element (FE) method, compare, for example, with (Guo et al. 2025; Rezende and Schuhmann 2025). This work addresses an orthogonal problem: How can AI methods be used to reduce the time required to set up electromagnetic simulation models, rather than solving the numerical models themselves? The focus is thus on the assisted generation of simulation models, whereby the numerical scheme itself remains unaffected. A conceptually related direction has recently emerged in the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) community.

Large language models have made significant advancements in various natural language processing tasks, including coreference resolution. However, traditional methods often fall short in effectively distinguishing referential relationships due to a lack of integration between syntactic and semantic information. This study introduces an innovative framework aimed at enhancing coreference resolution by utilizing pretrained language models. Our approach combines syntax parsing with semantic role labeling to accurately capture finer distinctions in referential relationships. By employing state-of-the-art pretrained models to gather contextual embeddings and applying an attention mechanism for fine-tuning, we improve the performance of coreference tasks. Experimental results across diverse datasets show that our method surpasses conventional coreference resolution systems, achieving notable accuracy in disambiguating references. This development not only improves coreference resolution outcomes but also positively impacts other natural language processing tasks that depend on precise referential understanding.

Originality: This submission uses existing techniques to analyze how syntax and semantics are represented in BERT. The authors do a good job of contextualizing the work in terms of previous work, for instance similar analyses for other models (like Word2Vec). They also build off of the work of Hewitt and Manning and provide new theoretical justification for Hewitt and Manning's empirical findings. Quality: Their mathematical arguments are sound, but the authors could add more rigor to the conclusions they draw in the remarks following Theorem 1. The empirical studies show some interesting results.

Analysis of pre-trained code models also has revealed that they can effectively learn program syntax. However, these works are limited in analyzing code syntax and their distance-based approaches are not accurate due to the curse of high dimensionality. Furthermore, the study of the learnt program semantics of these models is rarely discussed. To further understand the code features learnt by these models, in this paper, we target two well-known representative code pre-trained models (i.e., CodeBERT and GraphCodeBERT) and devise a set of probing tasks for the syntax and semantics analysis. Specifically, on one hand, we design two probing tasks (i.e., syntax pair node prediction and token tagging prediction) to manipulate AST for the understanding of learnt program syntax. On the other hand, we design two tasks (i.e., semantic relationship prediction and semantic propagation prediction(inGraph) ) on the constructed control flow graph (CFG), data dependency graph (DDG) and control dependency graph (CDG) for the learnt program semantic analysis. In addition, to understand which kind of program semantics these pre-trained models can comprehend well, we conduct the statistical analysis for attention weights learnt by different heads and layers. Through extensive analysis in terms of program syntax and semantics, we have the following findings: 1) Both CodeBERT and GraphCodeBERT can learn the program syntax well. 2) Both CodeBERT and GraphCodeBERT can learn program semantics to different extents. GraphCodeBERT is superior to CodeBERT in learning program control flow and data dependency information but has a similar capability to CodeBERT in learning control dependency information. 3) Both CodeBERT and GraphCodeBERT can capture program semantics in the final layer of representation, but different attention heads and layers exhibit different roles in learning program semantics.

A fundamental question in neurolinguistics concerns the brain regions involved in syntactic and semantic processing during speech comprehension, both at the lexical (word processing) and supra-lexical levels (sentence and discourse processing). To what extent are these regions separated or intertwined? To address this question, we trained a lexical language model, Glove, and a supra-lexical language model, GPT-2, on a text corpus from which we selectively removed either syntactic or semantic information. We then assessed to what extent these information-restricted models were able to predict the time-courses of fMRI signal of humans listening to naturalistic text. We also manipulated the size of contextual information provided to GPT-2 in order to determine the windows of integration of brain regions involved in supra-lexical processing. Our analyses show that, while most brain regions involved in language are sensitive to both syntactic and semantic variables, the relative magnitudes of these effects vary a lot across these regions. Furthermore, we found an asymmetry between the left and right hemispheres, with semantic and syntactic processing being more dissociated in the left hemisphere than in the right, and the left and right hemispheres showing respectively greater sensitivity to short and long contexts. The use of information-restricted NLP models thus shed new light on the spatial organization of syntactic processing, semantic processing and compositionality.

People rely on news to know what is happening around the world and inform their daily lives. In today's world, when the proliferation of fake news is rampant, having a large-scale and high-quality source of authentic news articles with the published category information is valuable to learning authentic news' Natural Language syntax and semantics. As part of this work, we present a News Category Dataset that contains around 210k news headlines from the year 2012 to 2022 obtained from HuffPost, along with useful metadata to enable various NLP tasks. In this paper, we also produce some novel insights from the dataset and describe various existing and potential applications of our dataset.

Having a rich multimodal inner language is an important component of human intelligence that enables several necessary core cognitive functions such as multimodal prediction, translation, and generation. Building upon the Conscious Turing Machine (CTM), a machine model for consciousness proposed by Blum and Blum (2021), we describe the desiderata of a multimodal language called Brainish, comprising words, images, audio, and sensations combined in representations that the CTM's processors use to communicate with each other. We define the syntax and semantics of Brainish before operationalizing this language through the lens of multimodal artificial intelligence, a vibrant research area studying the computational tools necessary for processing and relating information from heterogeneous signals. Our general framework for learning Brainish involves designing (1) unimodal encoders to segment and represent unimodal data, (2) a coordinated representation space that relates and composes unimodal features to derive holistic meaning across multimodal inputs, and (3) decoders to map multimodal representations into predictions (for fusion) or raw data (for translation or generation). Through discussing how Brainish is crucial for communication and coordination in order to achieve consciousness in the CTM, and by implementing a simple version of Brainish and evaluating its capability of demonstrating intelligence on multimodal prediction and retrieval tasks on several real-world image, text, and audio datasets, we argue that such an inner language will be important for advances in machine models of intelligence and consciousness.

This paper reports recent progress on modeling the grounded co-acquisition of syntax and semantics of locative spatial language in developmental robots. Weshow how a learner robot can learn to produce and interpret spatial utterances in guided-learning interactions with a tutor robot (equipped with a system for producing English spatial phrases). The tutor guides the learning process by simplifying the challenges and complexity of utterances, givesfeedback, and gradually increases the complexity of the language to be learnt. Our experiments show promising results towards long-term, incremental acquisition of natural language in a process of co-development of syntax and semantics.

Standard methods in deep learning for natural language processing fail to capture the compositional structure of human language that allows for systematic generalization outside of the training distribution. However, human learners readily generalize in this way, e.g. by applying known grammatical rules to novel words. Inspired by work in neuroscience suggesting separate brain systems for syntactic and semantic processing, we implement a modification to standard approaches in neural machine translation, imposing an analogous separation. The novel model, which we call Syntactic Attention, substantially outperforms standard methods in deep learning on the SCAN dataset, a compositional generalization task, without any hand-engineered features or additional supervision. Our work suggests that separating syntactic from semantic learning may be a useful heuristic for capturing compositional structure.

These are the working definitions that most of us find adequate in daily life and daily computer science. To consider whether there is more to it is to consider an ontology, the ontology of the variable. Is there a good comprehensive definition of "variable" for students and laypersons? First, however, let's address the subject that arises prominently where variables meet worldly ontology--the professional design of an ontology for some real thing, in some domain, driven by a commercial need to capture some enterprise in a database. The question is, "What do we need to keep track of?"