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Quantum Natural Language Processing on Near-Term Quantum Computers

Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, Stefano Gogioso, Giovanni de Felice, Nicolò Chiappori, Alexis Toumi, Bob Coecke

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Abstract

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 and complements the compositional structure of pregroup grammars. Within this model, the grammatical reduction of a sentence is interpreted as a diagram, encoding a specific interaction of words according to the grammar. It is this interaction which, together with a specific choice of word embedding, realises the meaning (or "semantics") of a sentence. Building on the formal quantum-like nature of such interactions, we present a method for mapping DisCoCat diagrams to quantum circuits. Our methodology is compatible both with NISQ devices and with established Quantum Machine Learning techniques, paving the way to near-term applications of quantum technology to natural language processing.

arXiv comments
In Proceedings QPL 2020, arXiv:2109.01534. This work was originally commissioned by Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) and was carried out independently by the CQC team and the Hashberg team
Journal reference
EPTCS 340, 2021, pp. 213-229
DOI
doi:10.4204/EPTCS.340.11
Subjects
cs.CLComputation and Language quant-phQuantum Physics

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    • What do you think of > In some of its applications, the original > Zeng-Coecke algorithm relies on the existence of a quantum random access memory (QRAM) [22], > which is not yet known to be efficiently implementable in the absence of fault tolerant scalable quantum > computers…

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