NLP Lab
The Natural Language Processing Lab
Quantum AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Created: Damir Cavar, 2023-06-12
Last change: Damir Cavar, 2025-05-19
The Quantum NLP and AI Study Group meetings during the Summer of 2025 are located in Luddy Hall BLIF 0002 every Thursday from 5 to 6:30 PM.
See the public calendar with all the meeting times and details: NLP-Lab Event Calendar.
Schedule
The topics to discuss, papers to read, or presentations to listen to during the Summer of 2025:
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 05/21/2025 | regular meeting, project coordinaton on Quantum Embeddings, Hamiltonians, similarity experiments |
Previous Meeting Schedules
News
- QED-C Discussion and Panel on the Future of Quantum and AI (March 12th, 2025) (LinkedIn post) with Cierra Choucair, Alain Chancé, Damir Cavar, Bob Coecke, Taha Selim (the recording is available on the QED-C YouTube channel)
- Quantum Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing Conference 2025 at Indiana University in August 2025.
- Damir Cavar, Koushik Reddy Parukola, Chi Zhang (2025) Word and Text Similarity Using Classical Word Embeddings in Quantum NLP Systems. Satellite Workshop: Quantum Machine Learning in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Hyderabad, India.
- Quantum Artificial Intelligence & Optimization 2025 workshop at the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART).
- We launched the environment for Natural Language Qu Kit (NLQK), a Quantum NLP (QNLP) library - GitHub repo, PyPi project, website
Events
- There was a news article about the Quantum NLP Study Group
- Quantum Day 2024, April 14th, 2024, 11 AM - 3 PM, Swain West 007
- CQT - Center for Quantum Technologies, NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) Year 2, Phase I, Spring 2024 Industry Advisory Board Meeting, April 3-4, 2024, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
TOC
- Introduction
- Most Recent
- Literature
- Tools and Technologies
- Tutorials
- Conferences and Events
- Jobs and Internships
Introduction
The Quantum NLP project in the NLP Lab is currently a study group focusing on the most recent papers in Quantum NLP. Our goal is to familiarize everybody with the different tools and environments for QNLP and work on interesting questions related to Quantum and language-related computation or cognitive aspects of language processing and quantum models.
The study group meets independently of the NLP Lab weekly meeting at IU-B. If you want to join this meeting, contact Damir Cavar directly.
See also the recent IU News article with some details on that.
- QSEc - Quantum Science and Engineering Center
- Center for Quantum Technologies (CQT) - Indiana University, Purdue University, University of Notre Dame
- QuTE - Quantum Technologies for Everyone student club at IUB
- Quantum Information Science (QIS)
Most Recent
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Chi Zhang, Akriti Kumari, Damir Cavar (2024) Entangled Meanings: Classification and Ambiguity Resolution in Near–Term QNLP. Paper and Poster presented at the IEEE Quantum Week 2024, Montreal, Canada, September 2024. (paper, poster)
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Damir Cavar and Chi Zhang (2024) Semantic Similarities using Classical Embeddings in Quantum NLP. Paper and Poster presented at the IEEE Quantum Week 2024, Montreal, Canada, September 2024. (paper, poster)
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NLP-Lab poster (2024) Quantum Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Luddy-Crane Summit on March 29, 2024 at Indiana University Bloomington.
Literature
Papers:
The papers we were reading are:
- Laakkonen, Konstantinos, and Coecke (2024) Quantum Algorithms for Compositional Text Processing.
- Zhang et al. (2023) Applications of Quantum Embedding in Computer Vision (focus on Quantum Embeddings)
- Schuld et al. (2014) An introduction to quantum machine learning.
- Coecke et al. (2010) Mathematical Foundations for a Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning.
- Coecke (2019) The Mathematics of Text Structure.
- Gogioso (2016) A Corpus-based Toy Model for DisCoCat.
- Bradley et al. (2018) Translating and Evolving: Towards a Model of Language Change in DisCoCat.
- Kartasaklis et al. (2021) lambeq: An Efficient High-Level Python Library for Quantum NLP.
- Widdows et al. (2022) Near-Term Advances in Quantum Natural Language Processing.
- Alexander and Widdows (2023) Quantum Text Encoding for Classification Tasks.
- Lorenz et al. (2021) QNLP in Practice: Running Compositional Models of Meaning on a Quantum Computer.
- Meichanetzidis et al. (2020) Grammar-aware sentence classification on quantum computers.
- Bob Coecke (2023) Our quest for finding the universality of language
- Widdows, Dominic and Stanley Peters (2003) Word Vectors and Quantum Logic Experiments with negation and disjunction.
Books:
- Nielsen, Michael A., and Isaac L. Chuang. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Luongo, Alessandro (2023) Quantum algorithms for data analysis.
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Hughes, Ciaran, et al. (2021) Quantum Computing for the Quantum Curious. Springer. Open Access, free download.
- Bob Coecke and Stefano Gogioso (2023) Quantum in Pictures: A New Way to Understand the Quantum World, Quantinuum.
- Bob Coecke and Aleks Kissinger (2017) Picturing Quantum Processes: A First Course in Quantum Theory and Diagrammatic Reasoning, Cambridge University Press.
Relevant literature from Cognitive Science and Psychology, related to language:
- Jerome R. Busemeyer and Peter D. Bruza (2012) Quantum Models of Cognition and Decision. Cambridge University Press. (FYI: the second edition is coming out soon and it has a special chapter on Large Language Models!)
Tools and Technologies
- lambeq, Python library for experimental Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP)
- tket, a quantum SDK
- pytket, a quantum computing toolkit and optimizing compiler by Quantinuum
- pytket-extensions, extension modules for pytket
- Qiskit - Open-Source Quantum Development
Tutorials
- From quantum picturalism to quantum NLP and quantum AI with Bob Coecke
- An introduction to Quantum Natural Language Processing, Nov. 2022 by Amin Karamlou, Marcel Pfaffhauser, and James Wootton
- related presentation from the QNLP 2022
- PennyLane a software framework for Q ML - by Xanadu
Conferences and Events
- The Future of Communications in A Quantum Era at the WestGate Academy, Odon, Indiana, 02/04/2025
- Quantum Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing Conference 2025 at Indiana University in August 2025.
- Purdue Quantum AI (PQAI), Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
- Quantum Artificial Intelligence & Optimization 2025 workshop at the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART).
- Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) 2022, Oxford, UK
- Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) 2023, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) 2022 (proceedings)
- Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) 2023 (proceedings)
- Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) 2024
Jobs and Internships
Cloud Services for Quantum Computation
Links
- Center for Quantum Technologies (CQT) - Indiana University, Purdue University, University of Notre Dame
- Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT)
- DARPA Quantum Benchmarking (QB)
- DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI)
- Illinois Quantum & Microelectronics Park (IQMP)
- MIT News - Quantum computing
- National Quantum Initiative - The National Quantum Coordination Office (NQCO)
- Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)
- QSEc - Quantum Science and Engineering Center at IU
- Quantum at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Quantum@ORNL)
- Quantum Information Science at IU (QIS)
- QuTE - Quantum Technologies for Everyone student club at IUB