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arXiv:1305.0556 · Malaysian Journal of Mathematical Sciences

A quantum teleportation inspired algorithm produces sentence meaning from word meaning and grammatical structure

Stephen Charles Clark, Bob Coecke, Edward Grefenstette, Stephen Pulman, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

Published May 2, 2013• 26 citations
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Abstract

We discuss an algorithm which produces the meaning of a sentence given meanings of its words, and its resemblance to quantum teleportation. In fact, this protocol was the main source of inspiration for this algorithm which has many applications in the area of Natural Language Processing.
DOI
10.48550/arxiv.1305.0556

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