Quantum AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) Lab Publications

Created: Damir Cavar, 2025-06-02

Last change: Damir Cavar, 2025-08-21

Panels

• 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)

Talks

• Cavar, D., Koushik Reddy Parukola, James Graves, Shane A. Sparks (2025) Old Wine in New Bottles: Using Classical Word Embeddings in Gate-Based Quantum NLP Systems. Paper to be presented at the Quantum AI and NLP Conference 2025, Indiana University, August 2025.
• Cavar, D., Koushik Reddy Parukola, Shane A. Sparks (2025) Old Wine in New Bottles: Using Classical Word Embeddings in Quantum NLP Systems. Paper to be presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days 2025, University of Notre Dame, April 2025.
• Damir Cavar, Koushik Reddy Parukola (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.
• 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. (full paper, short paper, poster)
• 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)
• Damir Cavar, Chi Zhang, Koushik Reddy Parukola (2024) Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) (2024) Presentation at the Quantum Day 2024 Seminar Series, organized by Quantum Technologies for Everyone (QuTE) at Indiana University Bloomington, April 14th 2024.
• Quantum-Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) (2024) Presentation at the 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.
• Quantum Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning (2024) NLP-Lab poster. Luddy-Crane Summit on March 29, 2024 at Indiana University Bloomington.

Publications

• Cavar, D., James Bryan Graves, Shane A. Sparks and Koushik Reddy Parukola (2025) Hybrid Classical Quantum Embeddings for NLP and AI using Hamiltonians. Short paper and poster presented at the IEEE Quantum Week 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
• Cavar, D., Koushik Reddy Parukola, James Bryan Graves, Shane Sparks (2025) Old Wine in New Bottles: Using Classical Word Embeddings in Gate-Based Quantum NLP Systems. Paper to be presented at the Quantum AI and NLP Conference 2025, Indiana University, August 2025. In D. Cavar, V. Aggarwal, S. Chen, J. Busemeyer (eds.) Quantum AI and NLP 2025, Springer.
• Damir Cavar, Koushik Reddy Parukola (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.
• 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. (full paper, short paper, poster)
• 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)

Software

• We launched the environment for Natural Language Qu Kit (NLQK), a Quantum NLP (QNLP) library - GitHub repo, PyPi project, website