21.259, FYI: Final Call for Participation: NACLO 2010

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Subject: 21.259, FYI: Final Call for Participation: NACLO 2010

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Date: 14-Jan-2010
From: Susanne Vejdemo < svejdemo at emich.edu >
Subject: Final Call for Participation: NACLO 2010

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From: Susanne Vejdemo [svejdemo at emich.edu]
Subject: Final Call for Participation: NACLO 2010

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Final call for participation in NACLO - the North American 
Computational Linguistics Olympiad

Contest dates:
Thursday, February 4 and Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Registration deadline:
Wednesday, February 3 (noon PST)

Contact:
naclo10org at umich.edu

The Fourth Annual North American Computational Linguistics 
Olympiad (NACLO) will take place on February 4 and March 10 of 
2010.

Last year, 82 high schools and 32 universities in the United States 
and Canada helped over 1080 students participate in this 
competition. 135 contestants advanced to the Invitational Round of 
NACLO, and two teams then went to Poland to compete at the 
International Linguistics Olympiad, and came home with several 
awards. The next year, the US team will travel to the International 
Linguistics Olympiad in Stockholm, Sweden.

The success of NACLO depends on the collaborative efforts of many
volunteers in the linguistics and computational linguistics 
communities. At this point you can participate by:
1. Advertising the upcoming (Feb. 4) contest to local high school 
students. Students can participate either at their own high school or 
at a university site. There are currently 30 registered university sites 
(see www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu for a list).
2. Hosting a site for the Open Round in 2011 (or even 2010).
3. Serving on a NACLO committee (see below).
4. Suggesting problems to be used in future Olympiads.

Hosting a site involves inviting high school students from your area to
your university on February 4, 2010. You will proctor the contest for 
three or four hours, and send the contestants' solutions to the judges.

We invite linguists and computational linguists from around the world 
to serve on a NACLO committee. Committees in need of members at 
this point are:
- Home Team: Coordinates and liaises with universities around the 
country.
- Away Team: Handles everything around the US participation in the
international competition.
- Program Committee: Creates and grades puzzles.

Challenging and engaging problems are the centerpiece of NACLO. 
If you have any ideas for new problems, please contact us. 
Guidelines for problem creation are at:

www.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/ProblemCreation.pdf

Thank you very much for your help in raising the profile of linguistics
among school students. Please contact the organizing team 
members if you have questions or would like to participate.

General questions and volunteering: Lori Levin, lsl at cs.cmu.edu
Suggestions for competition problems: Dragomir Radev, 
radev at umich.edu
Becoming a university site host: Yilu Zhou, yzhoug at wu.edu

You can find more information about NACLO, such as sample 
problems, registration deadlines and registration forms, at 
www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu. 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics

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