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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…

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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…

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There has been tremendous progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for music, in particular for musical composition and access to large databases for commercialisation through the Internet. We are interested in further advancing this field,…

Natural language processing (NLP) is at the forefront of great advances in contemporary AI, and it is arguably one of the most challenging areas of the field. At the same time, in the area of Quantum Computing (QC), with the steady growth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Konstantinos Meichanetzidis , Alexis Toumi , Giovanni de Felice , Bob Coecke

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 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

The main goal of this master's thesis is to introduce Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) in a way understandable by both the NLP engineer and the quantum computing practitioner. QNLP is a recent application of quantum computing that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Shervin Le Du , Senaida Hernández Santana , Giannicola Scarpa

Language processing is at the heart of current developments in artificial intelligence, and quantum computers are becoming available at the same time. This has led to great interest in quantum natural language processing, and several early…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Dominic Widdows , Willie Aboumrad , Dohun Kim , Sayonee Ray , Jonathan Mei

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

In recent developments, deep learning methodologies applied to Natural Language Processing (NLP) have revealed a paradox: They improve performance but demand considerable data and resources for their training. Alternatively, quantum…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Farha Nausheen , Khandakar Ahmed , M Imad Khan , Farina Riaz

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

Interpretability of artificial intelligence (AI) methods, particularly deep neural networks, is of great interest. This heightened focus stems from the widespread use of AI-backed systems. These systems, often relying on intricate neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Lirandë Pira , Chris Ferrie

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

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

The DisCoCirc framework for natural language processing allows the construction of compositional models of text, by combining units for individual words together according to the grammatical structure of the text. The compositional nature…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Tiffany Duneau

The reasonable definition of semantic interpretability presents the core challenge in explainable AI. This paper proposes a method to modify a traditional convolutional neural network (CNN) into an interpretable compositional CNN, in order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Wen Shen , Zhihua Wei , Shikun Huang , Binbin Zhang , Jiaqi Fan , Ping Zhao , Quanshi Zhang

Natural language processing (NLP) is the field that attempts to make human language accessible to computers, and it relies on applying a mathematical model to express the meaning of symbolic language. One such model, DisCoCat, defines how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Matt Wright

Quantum approaches to natural language processing (NLP) are redefining how linguistic information is represented and processed. While traditional hybrid quantum-classical models rely heavily on classical neural networks, recent advancements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Colin Krawchuk , Nikhil Khatri , Neil John Ortega , Dimitri Kartsaklis

This thesis introduces quantum natural language processing (QNLP) models based on a simple yet powerful analogy between computational linguistics and quantum mechanics: grammar as entanglement. The grammatical structure of text and…

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