{"id":336,"date":"2022-11-29T21:55:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T20:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.lis-lab.fr\/?p=336"},"modified":"2022-11-30T10:48:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T09:48:58","slug":"alexis-toumi-lis-cana-category-theory-for-quantum-natural-language-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.lis-lab.fr\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Toumi (LIS, CaNa): Category Theory for Quantum Natural Language Processing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract :<\/strong> Quantum natural language processing (QNLP) is the use of quantum computing to solve NLP tasks faster than any classical computer. In my PhD, I used category theory to implement QNLP models as homomorphisms from natural language grammar to parameterised quantum circuits.&nbsp;I will aim to explain my thesis from scratch, without assuming any knowledge of category theory, quantum computing or natural language processing: no equations, only diagrams! If time permits, I will give a demo of DisCoPy, the Python toolkit for computing with string diagrams which we used to run the first NLP experiments on quantum hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here the presentation : <a href=\"https:\/\/alexis.toumi.xyz\/slides\/22-11-29-CT-for-QNLP.html\">https:\/\/alexis.toumi.xyz\/slides\/22-11-29-CT-for-QNLP.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/amupod.univ-amu.fr\/video\/24744-seminaire-cana-alexis-toumi-category-theory-for-quantum-natural-language-processing\/?is_iframe=true\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border:0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract : Quantum natural language processing (QNLP) is the use of quantum computing to solve NLP tasks faster than any classical computer. In my PhD, I used category theory to implement QNLP models as homomorphisms from [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-categorical-quantum-mechanics","category-quantum-natural-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.lis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.lis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.lis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.lis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.lis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.lis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.lis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.lis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.lis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.lis-lab.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}