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We present a representation for linguistic structure that we call a Fock-space representation, which allows us to embed problems in language processing into small quantum devices. We further develop a formalism for understanding both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Nathan Wiebe , Alex Bocharov , Paul Smolensky , Matthias Troyer , Krysta M Svore

Guided by grammatical structure, words compose to form sentences, and guided by discourse structure, sentences compose to form dialogues and documents. The compositional aspect of sentence and discourse units is often overlooked by machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Hadi Wazni , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

We develop a vector space semantics for Lambek Calculus with Soft Subexponentials, apply the calculus to construct compositional vector interpretations for parasitic gap noun phrases and discourse units with anaphora and ellipsis, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Lachlan McPheat , Hadi Wazni , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

Lambek calculus with a relevant modality $!\mathbf{L^*}$ of arXiv:1601.06303 syntactically resolves parasitic gaps in natural language. It resembles the Lambek calculus with anaphora $\mathbf{LA}$ of (J\"ager, 1998) and the Lambek calculus…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Lachlan McPheat , Gijs Wijnholds , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Adriana Correia , Alexis Toumi

The mathematical formalism of quantum theory has been successfully used in human cognition to model decision processes and to deliver representations of human knowledge. As such, quantum cognition inspired tools have improved technologies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Diederik Aerts , Jan Broekaert , Sandro Sozzo , Tomas Veloz

In this work, we describe a full-stack pipeline for natural language processing on near-term quantum computers, aka QNLP. The language-modelling framework we employ is that of compositional distributional semantics (DisCoCat), which extends…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Konstantinos Meichanetzidis , Stefano Gogioso , Giovanni de Felice , Nicolò Chiappori , Alexis Toumi , Bob Coecke

Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) deals with the design and implementation of NLP models intended to be run on quantum hardware. In this paper, we present results on the first NLP experiments conducted on Noisy Intermediate-Scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Robin Lorenz , Anna Pearson , Konstantinos Meichanetzidis , Dimitri Kartsaklis , Bob Coecke

Anaphora resolution is one of the most active research areas in natural language processing. This study examines focusing as a tool for the resolution of pronouns which are a kind of anaphora. Focusing is a discourse phenomenon like…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Ebru Ersan , Varol Akman

Natural language processing (NLP) problems are ubiquitous in classical computing, where they often require significant computational resources to infer sentence meanings. With the appearance of quantum computing hardware and simulators, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-09 Lee J. O'Riordan , Myles Doyle , Fabio Baruffa , Venkatesh Kannan

Despite significant advances in quantum computing across various domains, research on applying quantum approaches to language compositionality - such as modeling linguistic structures and interactions - remains limited. This gap extends to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Hala Hawashin

Sentiment classification is one the best use case of classical natural language processing (NLP) where we can witness its power in various daily life domains such as banking, business and marketing industry. We already know how classical AI…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 Srinjoy Ganguly , Sai Nandan Morapakula , Luis Miguel Pozo Coronado

This paper describes experiments showing that some tasks in natural language processing (NLP) can already be performed using quantum computers, though so far only with small datasets. We demonstrate various approaches to topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Dominic Widdows , Aaranya Alexander , Daiwei Zhu , Chase Zimmerman , Arunava Majumder

Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) offers a novel approach to encoding and understanding the complexity of natural languages through the power of quantum computation. This paper presents a pretrained quantum context-sensitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Charles M. Varmantchaonala , Niclas Götting , Nils-Erik Schütte , Jean Louis E. K. Fendji , Christopher Gies

Extended versions of the Lambek Calculus currently used in computational linguistics rely on unary modalities to allow for the controlled application of structural rules affecting word order and phrase structure. These controlled structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Adriana D. Correia , Henk T. C. Stoof , Michael Moortgat

Quantum computing and AI have found a fruitful intersection in the field of natural language processing. We focus on the recently proposed DisCoCirc framework for natural language, and propose a quantum adaptation, QDisCoCirc. This is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Tuomas Laakkonen , Konstantinos Meichanetzidis , Bob Coecke

We develop a vector space semantics for verb phrase ellipsis with anaphora using type-driven compositional distributional semantics based on the Lambek calculus with limited contraction (LCC) of J\"ager (2006). Distributional semantics has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Gijs Wijnholds , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

Formal languages are essential for computer programming and are constructed to be easily processed by computers. In contrast, natural languages are much more challenging and instigated the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). One…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Daphne Wang

We provide conceptual and mathematical foundations for near-term quantum natural language processing (QNLP), and do so in quantum computer scientist friendly terms. We opted for an expository presentation style, and provide references for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Bob Coecke , Giovanni de Felice , Konstantinos Meichanetzidis , Alexis Toumi

In the field of natural language processing (NLP), continuous vector representations are crucial for capturing the semantic meanings of individual words. Yet, when it comes to the representations of sets of words, the conventional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Yoichi Ishibashi , Sho Yokoi , Katsuhito Sudoh , Satoshi Nakamura

Quantum natural language processing (QNLP) offers a novel approach to semantic modeling by embedding compositional structure directly into quantum circuits. This paper investigates the application of QNLP models to the task of Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ling Sun , Peter Sullivan , Michael Martin , Yun Zhou
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