I am a Ph.D student under the supervision of Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh as a part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Delivering Quantum Technologies (funded by EPSRC). I am currently based in UCL within the Principles of Natural Language, Logic and Statistics research lab as well as the Principle of Programming Languages and Verification group.
My work is mainly on Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP); specifically, I am interested in the link between Quantum Contextuality and Causality and Linguistics. Other research interests include Quantum algorithms, Category Theory, Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Quantum Foundations.
Email: d.wang 'at' cs.ucl.ac.uk
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Publications
- Causality and Signalling of Garden-Path Sentences.
Joint work with Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
To be published in the Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society A
(Soon to be on arXiv) - DisCoCat for Donkey Sentences
Joint work with Lachlan McPheat
Published in: Proceedings of Modalities in substructural logics: Applications at the interfaces of logic, language and computation. EPTCS (2023)
Read here - The Causal Structure of Semantic Ambiguities. (accepted at QPL 2022)
Joint work with Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
To be published in EPTCS
Read here - Analysing Ambiguous Nouns and Verbs with Quantum Contextuality Tools
Joint work with Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Samson Abramsky and Victor H. Cervantes
Published in: Journal of Cognitive Science, 22(3), 391-420 (2021)
Read here - On the quantum-like contextuality of ambiguous phrases
Joint work with Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Samson Abramsky and Victor H. Cervantes
Published in: Proceedings of Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Science (SemSpace2021) colocated with 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2021). ACL Anthology (2021)
Read here
Unpublished work
- Sheaf Theoretic Models of Contextuality - from Quantum Measurements to Natural Language (MRes Thesis)
Read here - Quantum Causality and Higher Order Processes (MSc Thesis)
Read here - The Contextuality of a Text (Distributional Models of Meaning course mini-project)
Read here
List of talks
- MOSAIC 2023
Semantics of Donkey Sentences in Modal Lambek Calculus
28th Sept 2023 - Samson Abramsky on Logic and Structure in Computer Science and Beyond
Causality and Signalling of Garden-Path Sentences
20th Sept 2023 - Pros & Comps 2023 (Procedural and computational models of semantic and pragmatic processes)
Sheaves and garden-path sentences
2nd Aug 2023
Abstract - WiL 2023 (Women in Logic)
Presheaf models of Human Parsing
1st July 2023 - PPLV Seminar
A sheaf-theoretic model of Garden-path sentences
3rd Feb 2023 - QCQMB2022 (Quantum Contextuality in Quantum Mechanics and Beyond)
Causality and signalling of garden-path sentences
18th December 2022 - Sheaf Lunch
Sheaf Approaches to Language Modelling
16th Nov 2022 - QPL 2022 (Quantum Physics and Logic)
The Causal Structure of Semantic Ambiguities
29th June 2022
Watch here - PPLV Seminar
Quantum-like contextuality in natural language
11th Nov 2021 - Mathematical and Computational Psychology colloquium
Methods from Quantum Contextuality in Psycholinguistics
4th Oct 2021 (invited talk at Purdue University) - QNLP seminar series
On the Quantum-like Contextuality of Ambiguous Phrases
25th June 2021 - SemSpace2021 Workshop
On the Quantum-like Contextuality of Ambiguous Phrases
16th June 2021 - QCQMB2021 (Quantum Contextuality in Quantum Mechanics and Beyond)
In search of true contextuality in natural language
18th May 2021
Watch here, slides available here
Poster Presentations
- LSD (Learning with Small Data)
An Incremental Model of Garden-Path Sentences Using Sheaf Theory
12th Sept 2023 - QPL 2023 (Quantum Physics and Logic)
Variational Quantum Circuits for Meaning Prediction
17th Jul 2023
Awards
- Research Spotlight Competition finalist
(London Hopper Colloquium 2023) - EDI student award
(2022, 2nd place - group activities) - Outstanding Paper Award
(QCQMB 2021 workshop) - Research Spotlight Competition finalist
(London Hopper Colloquium 2020)
Teaching and supervision
Teaching Assistant
- 2022 - 2023: COMP0157 Quantum Computation (UCL)
- 2021 - 2022: COMP0157 Quantum Computation (UCL)
- 2021 - 2022: COMP0011 Mathematics and Statistics (UCL)
Other
- 2021 - 2022: Co-supervisor of YiFan Li (MRes in Quantum Technologies)
Previous affiliations
Academic
- 2019 - : University College London (UCL)
Centre for Doctoral Training in Delivering Quantum Technologies - 2018 - 2019: University of Oxford (St Cross College)
MSc in Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science - 2017 - 2018: Durham University
MSc Mathematical Sciences - 2014 - 2017: Durham University
BSc Natural Sciences (Mathematics and Physics)
Industry
- 2022: Intern at Quantinuum