Presentation
(PP26): Quantum Natural Language Processing
SessionProject Poster Presentation
Event Type
Project Poster
AI/Machine Learning/Deep Learning
Quantum Computing
TimeTuesday, June 18th3:15pm - 3:45pm
LocationBooth N-230
DescriptionNatural language processing (NLP) is often used to perform tasks like sentiment analysis, relationship extraction and word sense disambiguation. Most traditional NLP algorithms operate over strings of words and are limited since they analyse meanings of the component words in a corpus without information about grammatical rules of the language. Consequently, the qualities of results of these traditional algorithms are often unsatisfactory with increase in problem complexity.
An alternate approach called “compositional semantics” incorporates the grammatical structure of sentences in a language into the analysis algorithms. One such model is “distributional compositional semantics” (DisCo) which gives grammatically informed algorithms that compute the meaning of sentences. This algorithm has been noted to offer significant improvements to the quality of results. However, the main challenge in its implementation is the need for large classical computational resources.
The DisCo model was developed by its authors with direct inspiration from quantum theory, and presents two quantum algorithms: the “closest vector problem” algorithm and the “CSC sentence similarity” algorithm. Their quantum implementation lowers storage and compute requirements compared to a classic HPC implementation.
In this project, the Irish Centre for High-End Computing collaborates with Intel Corporation to implement the two DisCo model quantum algorithms on the Intel Quantum Simulator deployed on the Irish national supercomputer. We target corpuses with ~2000 most common words using up to 41 qubits simulation. The implemented solution will be able to compute the meanings of two sentences (built from words in the corpus) and decide if their meanings match.
An alternate approach called “compositional semantics” incorporates the grammatical structure of sentences in a language into the analysis algorithms. One such model is “distributional compositional semantics” (DisCo) which gives grammatically informed algorithms that compute the meaning of sentences. This algorithm has been noted to offer significant improvements to the quality of results. However, the main challenge in its implementation is the need for large classical computational resources.
The DisCo model was developed by its authors with direct inspiration from quantum theory, and presents two quantum algorithms: the “closest vector problem” algorithm and the “CSC sentence similarity” algorithm. Their quantum implementation lowers storage and compute requirements compared to a classic HPC implementation.
In this project, the Irish Centre for High-End Computing collaborates with Intel Corporation to implement the two DisCo model quantum algorithms on the Intel Quantum Simulator deployed on the Irish national supercomputer. We target corpuses with ~2000 most common words using up to 41 qubits simulation. The implemented solution will be able to compute the meanings of two sentences (built from words in the corpus) and decide if their meanings match.
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