Quantinuum Releases an Update to Its λambeq Quantum Natural Language Software Tool

We reported last October on a new software product from Quantinuum's Cambridge Quantum software team called λambeq (pronounced “Lambek”), the world's first quantum natural language program capability of converting sentences into quantum circuits. This update will make the software more flexible for users by providing a new command line interface and a new neural-based CCG (Combinatory Categorial Grammar) parser named Bobcat, and improvements in the routines that provide a visualization of λambeq's output as well as expanded documentation.

It's clear there is a large and fast growing market for natural language processing software, but the question remains when a quantum version will ever be able to outperform a classical version. Both are continuing to improve in accuracy as more powerful algorithms are developed as well as more powerful and capable hardware introduced to process the algorithms. But it is good to see that Quantinuum has made the software available as an open-source Python library. This will allow other researchers to experiment with the software and provide updates that will continue the software to get better as time goes on.

Additional information is available in a news release that can be accessed here, technical documentation available here, release notes which can be found here, and the software itself which can be download from GitHub here.

March 29, 2022