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Stream: event: ACT20

Topic: July 10: Bob Coecke et al.'s talk

Paolo Perrone (Jul 01 2020 at 20:32):

Hello all! This is the thread of discussion for the talk of Bob Coecke, Giovanni de Felice, Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, Alexis Toumi, Stefano Gogioso and Nicolò Chiappori, "Quantum Natural Language Processing".
Date and time: Friday July 10, 11:40 UTC.
Zoom meeting: https://mit.zoom.us/j/7488874897
YouTube live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNdgmTMMUuw&list=PLCOXjXDLt3pZDHGYOIqtg1m1lLOURjl1Q

Paolo Perrone (Jul 10 2020 at 11:28):

This talk will start in 12 minutes. Mind the "new" Zoom link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/7488874897

Jules Hedges (Jul 10 2020 at 11:54):

Learning a functor? @Bruno Gavranovic I wonder if this fits in the framework for learning functors in your MSc thesis?

Alexis Toumi (Jul 10 2020 at 12:00):

:clap:

Alexis Toumi (Jul 10 2020 at 12:00):

If you wondered, Konstantinos is the designer behind all the animations in the slide!

Alexis Toumi (Jul 10 2020 at 12:08):

And if you want more, he's also shared some of them on twitter! https://twitter.com/konstantinosmei/status/1265281987327201281

Animated process-theoretic proof that the meaning of life is arbitrary, and so it may as well be ice-cream. https://twitter.com/konstantinosmei/status/1265281987327201281/photo/1

- konstantinosmei (@konstantinosmei)

Alexis Toumi (Jul 10 2020 at 12:10):

Jules Hedges said:

Learning a functor? Bruno Gavranovic I wonder if this fits in the framework for learning functors in your MSc thesis?

Yes, I remember having a quick chat about this with Bruno last summer at ACT in Oxford.

Alexis Toumi (Jul 10 2020 at 12:11):

I think one application could be to learn pregroup grammars by translating pregroup axioms into soft constraints to a machine learning algorithm.

Alexis Toumi (Jul 10 2020 at 12:14):

That would be for the syntax side, I'm not sure whether the same framework could help for learning semantic functors. We don't have a finite presentation of language, but maybe we can try to learn one?

Paolo Perrone (Jul 10 2020 at 15:41):

Here's the video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9ZyKSfutco&list=PLCOXjXDLt3pYot9VNdLlZqGajHyZUywdI