How to make qubits speak
Bob Coecke, Giovanni de Felice, Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, Alexis, Toumi

TL;DR
This paper explores how to enable quantum computers to process and understand language in a natural, compositional, and meaning-aware way, demonstrating question-answering on a quantum platform and discussing broader quantum-native implementations.
Contribution
It introduces a quantum-native, compositional approach to natural language processing and demonstrates question-answering on an actual quantum computer, highlighting the potential for broader applications.
Findings
Question-answering achieved on a quantum computer
Use of pictorial, meaning-aware representations
Guidance provided for quantum NLP implementation
Abstract
This is a story about making quantum computers speak, and doing so in a quantum-native, compositional and meaning-aware manner. Recently we did question-answering with an actual quantum computer. We explain what we did, stress that this was all done in terms of pictures, and provide many pointers to the related literature. In fact, besides natural language, many other things can be implemented in a quantum-native, compositional and meaning-aware manner, and we provide the reader with some indications of that broader pictorial landscape, including our account on the notion of compositionality. We also provide some guidance for the actual execution, so that the reader can give it a go as well.
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