Organized by Aix-Marseille University, France and National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India
The workshop aims at introducing the French and Indian communities to quantum natural language processing (QNLP). Quantum computing has seen fast development in recent years with the premise of theoretically faster computation on hard problems. In the field of natural langage processing (NLP), this potential speed improvement is accompanied with modeling of language elements such as words with quantum bits as shown by pioneer work by Bob Coecke. This novel modeling relies on different features from traditional approaches and should allow the redevelopment of major approaches to NLP, leading to even more potential than speed improvements.
Hexagone - Luminy Sciences Campus, Marseille, France
| 9:00 | Coffee |
| 9:25 | Workshop Introduction, Prof. Benoit Favre and Dr. Partha Pakray |
| 9:30 | Presentation of CNRS GdR TAL, Thomas Hueber |
| 9:45 | CEFIPRA, India-France collaboration, Payal Prakash |
| 10:00 | Introduction to conventional NLP, Prof. Alexis Nasr (Aix-Marseille Univ.) |
| 11:00 | Quantum computing introduction, Prof. Giuseppe Di Molfetta (Aix-Marseille Univ.) |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Advances in quantum machine learning, Prof. Hachem Kadri (Aix-Marseille Univ.) |
| 14:30 | Natural Language Processing and Quantum Machine Learning, Prof. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay (NIT Silchar) |
| 15:00 | Sentiment Analysis using Quantum Computing, Dr. Anupam Jamatia (NIT Agartala) |
| 15:30 | Python QNLP tutorial, Dr. Partha Pakray (NIT Silchar) |
| 16:00 | Round table: “What is the place for QNLP in the current world of LLM-focused AI?” |
| 16:45 | Wrap up |
Deadline: September 1th, 2024
Registration is free but mandatory. Click to register .