Compositional Models of Artificial Intelligence, and beyond!
30 & 31 May 2022
Oxford and Online (Hybrid Conference), United Kingdom
We aim to bring together members of academia and industry who are interested in natural language processing, graphical languages, category theory and compositional models of complex systems, linguistics, artificial intelligence and tensor network methods. Our prime aims are to create a space for dialogue and encourage collaboration as well as provide a bridge between quantum computing and natural language processing.
Time | Speaker | Title | |
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9:00-9:30 | Arrival | ||
9:30-10:10 | Bob Coecke | ||
10:10-10:50 | James Wootton/Amin Karamlou | Quantum Natural Language Generation and other Quantum Procedural Generation | Link |
10:50-11:10 | Coffee break | ||
11:10-11:50 | Vedran Dunjko | Beyond quantum kernel methods with limited circuit architectures | Link |
11:50-12:30 | Ryan Sweke (TBC) | Potential and limitations of generative modelling with quantum circuits | Link |
12:30-13:40 | Lunch break | ||
13:40-14:20 | Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh | QNLP for Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution | Link |
14:20-15:00 | Gemma De Las Cuevas | What is the scope of universality and undecidability across disciplines? | Link |
15:00-15:20 | Coffee break | ||
15:20-16:00 | Alessandro Luongo | Quantum Machine Learning: what's done and what's left | Link |
16:00-16:40 | Armando Bellante | Quantum data representations for audio and natural language processing | Link |
16:40-17:00 | Coffee break | ||
17:00-17:40 | Yiannis Vlassopoulos | A proposal for modelling language semantics given probability densities of text continuations | Link |
17:40-18:00 | Alexis Toumi | DisCoPy demonstration | |
18:30-22:00 | Conference Dinner |
Time | Speaker | Title | |
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9:30-10:10 | Dominic Widdows | Composition with Qubits: Some Building Blocks for Quantum Semantics | Link |
10:10-10:50 | Martha Lewis | Modelling metaphor with density matrices | Link |
10:50-11:10 | Coffee break | ||
11:10-11:50 | Petar Veličković | AI x Mathematics | Link |
11:50-12:30 | Ciaran Lee | Counterfactual reasoning and what it's good for | Link |
12:30-13:40 | Lunch break | ||
13:40-14:20 | Steve Clark | Learning Classical and Quantum Representations of Concepts | Link |
14:20-15:00 | Dusko Pavlovic | Why do syntactic processes in our heads and quantum processes in nuclear bombs obey the same laws of cups and caps? | Link |
15:00-15:20 | Coffee break | ||
15:20-16:00 | Dimitri Kartsaklis | Quantum Natural Language Processing through Questions and Answers | |
16:00-16:40 | Kevin Shen | Working Towards a Fully Useful Quantum Use Case (WTFUQ) in the Healthcare Industry - Our Journey Exploring QNLP | Link |
16:40-17:00 | Coffee break | ||
17:00-17:40 | Konstantinos Meichanetzidis | TBC | |
17:40-18:00 | Richie Yeung | Lambeq demonstration |
Attendence can be either in person or online. Please register on Eventbrite for either means of particiaption.
If taking part online, you can follow the action on the Quantinuum YouTube channel, and on the QNLP Discord server. You can join the "meet and greet" channel to introduce yourself.
The conference will be held at St Aldate's Church.
Oxford is the home of the oldest university in the English speaking world, and boasts many tourist attractions. It is easily reached from London's international Heathrow airport via the so-called airline bus service. For more information see these travel directions.
Oxford has a wide range of places to stay, including college accommodation, private rooms and flats, or short term properties to share, and many bed and breakfasts (B&Bs) and guest houses. Particularly well located are Courtyard Oxford City Centre, Rewley House, Old Bank Hotel, Malmaison Hotel Oxford and The Randolph Hotel. Please contact Destiny Chen should you need further information. Demand for accommodation in Oxford is high, so the rule of thumb is to book a place as soon as possible.
Please register for either local or free online attendance at Eventbrite.
For any enquiries, please contact Destiny Chen (qnlp2022@cambridgequantum.com).