Extending the Frontiers of QNLP Beyond English: Grammar-Sensitive Pipeline for Hindi Sentiment Classification Using Compositional Quantum Models
Advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP), whether on classical or quantum platforms, have predominantly focused on English due to its widespread use and abundant linguistic resources. Although English remains the most studied language in computational linguistics, Hindi, the third most spoken language worldwide after Mandarin, has received comparatively limited attention. Spoken primarily in India, Hindi differs significantly from English in its script, syntactic structure, and linguistic characteristics. Hindi uses the Devanagari script, exhibits rich morphological inflection, and follows a subject-object-verb (SOV) word order, unlike English's subject-verb-object (SVO) structure. Motivated by Hindi's linguistic complexity and its underrepresentation in Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP), we propose a grammar-aware QNLP pipeline for Hindi sentiment classification with a focus on sentential negation. We use a manually annotated Hindi sentiment dataset labeled as positive, negative, or neutral, and encode sentences using pregroup grammar types. Sentences are processed with Lambeq to generate quantum circuits using a novel negation-aware compositional grammar. Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks (HQNNs) are trained for both binary and ternary sentiment classification. Our results demonstrate effective sentiment classification and highlight the potential of compositional QNLP for morphologically rich languages.