QNLP 2022

About this conference

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.

ZX Calculus: Hopf rule

Reasoning with connectivity using diagrammatic reasoning.

DisCoCat Model

Converting parse trees into quantum circuits.

ZX Calculus: Hadamard rule

Evaluating quantum circuits using diagrammatic reasoning.

Language Circuits

Using category theory to convert parse trees into language circuits.

Speakers

Armando Bellante
Politecnico di Milano

Steve Clark
Quantinuum

Bob Coecke
Quantinuum

Gemma De Las Cuevas
University of Innsbruck

Vedran Dunjko
Leiden University

Marios Ioannou
Freie Universität Berlin

Dimitri Kartsaklis
Quantinuum

Ciaran Lee
Spotify and UCL

Martha Lewis
University of Bristol

Alessandro Luongo
Centre for Quantum Technologies

Konstantinos Meichanetzidis
Quantinuum

Dusko Pavlovic
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
University College London

Kevin Shen
Technical University of Munich

Petar Veličković
DeepMind and University of Cambridge

Yiannis Vlassopoulos
Tunnel

Dominic Widdows
IonQ

James Wooton
IBM Quantum

Programme

Monday 30th May

Time	Speaker	Title
9:00-9:30	Arrival
9:30-10:10	Bob Coecke	From Quantum Pictures for Kids to Quantum AI Logic
10:10-10:50	James Wootton/Amin Karamlou	Quantum Natural Language Generation and other Quantum Procedural Generation	Details
10:50-11:10	Coffee break
11:10-11:50	Alessandro Luongo	Quantum Machine Learning: what's done and what's left	Details
11:50-12:30	Marios Ioannou	Potential and limitations of generative modelling with quantum circuits	Details
12:30-13:40	Lunch break
13:40-14:20	Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh	QNLP for Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution	Details
14:20-15:00	Vedran Dunjko	Beyond quantum kernel methods with limited circuit architectures	Details
15:00-15:20	Coffee break
15:20-16:00	Gemma De Las Cuevas	What is the scope of universality and undecidability across disciplines?	Details
16:00-16:40	Armando Bellante	Quantum data representations for audio and natural language processing	Details
16:40-17:00	Coffee break
17:00-17:40	Yiannis Vlassopoulos	A proposal for modelling language semantics given probability densities of text continuations	Details
17:40-18:00	Alexis Toumi	DisCoPy demonstration
18:30-22:00	Conference Dinner

Tuesday 31st May

Time	Speaker	Title
9:30-10:10	Dominic Widdows	Composition with Qubits: Some Building Blocks for Quantum Semantics	Details
10:10-10:50	Martha Lewis	Modelling metaphor with density matrices	Details
10:50-11:10	Coffee break
11:10-11:50	Petar Veličković	AI x Mathematics	Details
11:50-12:30	Ciaran Lee	Counterfactual reasoning and what it's good for	Details
12:30-13:40	Lunch break
13:40-14:20	Steve Clark	Learning Classical and Quantum Representations of Concepts	Details
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?	Details
15:00-15:20	Coffee break
15:20-16:00	Dimitri Kartsaklis	Quantum Natural Language Processing with lambeq	Details
16:00-16:40	Kevin Shen	Working Towards a Fully Useful Quantum Use Case (WTFUQ) in the Healthcare Industry - Our Journey Exploring QNLP	Details
16:40-17:00	Coffee break
17:00-17:40	Konstantinos Meichanetzidis	Experiments in the quantum disco	Details
17:40-18:00	Richie Yeung	Lambeq demonstration

How to attend

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, and join the "questions" channel to ask questions!

Location

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.

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