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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Reasoning about Meaning in Natural Language with Compact Closed Categories and Frobenius Algebras </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Dimitri Kartsaklis&#x201a; Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh&#x201a; Stephen Pulman and Bob Coecke  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In A. Chubb J. Eskandarian and V. Harizanov, editors,
             
            <em>
            Logic and Algebraic Structures in Quantum Computing and Information</em>.
        Cambridge University Press.
        2013.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Quantum measurements without sums </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke and Dusko Pavlovic  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In G.&#xa0;Chen&#x201a; L.&#xa0;Kauffman and S.&#xa0;Lamonaco, editors,
             
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            Mathematics of Quantum Computing and Technology</em>.
        
                Pages 567&#x2013;604.
            Taylor and Francis.
        2007.
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            class="publicationNote"> arXiv:quant&#x2212;ph/0608035</p>
	
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Reconstructing quantum theory from diagrammatic postulates </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> John Selby&#x201a; Carlo Maria Scandolo and Bob Coecke  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
        In <em>arXiv:1802.00367 [quant&#x2212;ph]</em>.
        January,
            2018.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            A new description of orthogonal bases </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke&#x201a; Dusko Pavlovic and Jamie Vicary  </em> </p>
	
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        In <em>Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science</em>.
        
            Vol. 23.
        
            No. 3.
        
                Pages 555&#x2013;567.
            2013.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Lambek vs. Lambek: Functorial Vector Space Semantics and String Diagrams for Lambek Calculus </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke&#x201a; Edward Grefenstette and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh  </em> </p>
	
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        In <em>Annals of Pure and Applied Logic</em>.
        2013.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Graphical Calculus for Quantum Key Distribution (Extended Abstract) </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke&#x201a; Quanlong Wang&#x201a; Baoshan Wang&#x201a; Yongjun Wang and Qiye Zhang  </em> </p>
	
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        In <em>Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science</em>.
        
            Vol. 270.
        
            No. 2.
        
                Pages 231 &#x2212; 249.
            2011.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Phase groups and the origin of non&#x2212;locality for qubits </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke&#x201a; Bill Edwards and Robert W. Spekkens  </em> </p>
	
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        In <em>Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science</em>.
        
            Vol. 270.
        
            No. 2.
        
                Pages 15&#x2212;36.
            2011.
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            class="publicationNote"> arXiv:1003.5005</p>
	
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Toy Quantum Categories (Extended Abstract) </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke and Bill Edwards  </em> </p>
	
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        In <em>Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science</em>.
        
            Vol. 270.
        
            No. 1.
        
                Pages 29 &#x2212; 40.
            2011.
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            class="publicationNote"> arXiv:0808.1037</p>
	
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Concrete Sentence Spaces for Compositional Distributional Models of Meaning </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Edward Grefenstette&#x201a; Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh&#x201a; Stephen Clark&#x201a; Bob Coecke and Stephen Pulman  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
        In <em>Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS11)</em>.
        
                Pages 125&#x2013;134.
            2011.
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            Quantum Picturalism </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke  </em> </p>
	
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        In <em>Contemporary Physics</em>.
        
            Vol. 51.
        
                Pages 59&#x2212;83.
            2009.
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            class="publicationNote"> arXiv:0908.1787</p>
	
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Environment and classical channels in categorical quantum mechanics </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke and Simon Perdrix  </em> </p>
	
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            In  
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            Proceedings of the 19th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL)</em>.
        
            Vol. 6247
                of Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
        
                Pages 230&#x2212;244.
            2010.
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            class="publicationNote"> Extended version: arXiv:1004.1598</p>
	
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            The Compositional Structure of Multipartite Quantum Entanglement </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke and Aleks Kissinger  </em> </p>
	
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            In  
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            Proceedings of the 37th International Colloquium on Automata&#x201a; Languages and Programming (ICALP)</em>.
        
                Pages 297&#x2212;308.
            2010.
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            class="publicationNote"> Extended version: arXiv:1002.2540</p>
	
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Interacting quantum observables </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Bob Coecke and Ross Duncan  </em> </p>
	
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            In  
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            Proceedings of the 37th International Colloquium on Automata&#x201a; Languages and Programming (ICALP)</em>.
        2008.
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            class="publicationNote"> Extended version: arXiv:quant&#x2212;ph/09064725</p>
	
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            A categorical semantics of quantum protocols </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Samson Abramsky and Bob Coecke  </em> </p>
	
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            In  
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            Proceedings of the 19th Annual IEEE Symposium of Logic in Computer Science</em>.
        
                Pages 415&#x2212;425.
            IEEE Computer Science Press.
        2004.
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            class="publicationNote"> Extended version: arXiv:0808.1023</p>
	
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Quantum Natural Language Processing on Near&#x2212;Term Quantum Computers </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Konstantinos Meichanetzidis&#x201a; Stefano Gogioso&#x201a; Giovanni De Felice&#x201a; Nicol&#xf2; Chiappori&#x201a; Alexis Toumi and Bob Coecke  </em> </p>
	
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Graded Entailment for Compositional Distributional Semantics </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Desislava Bankova&#x201a; Bob Coecke&#x201a; Martha Lewis and Daniel Marsden  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 2016.
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