27.152, FYI: Final Call for Participation in NACLO

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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 19:43:04
From: Matt Gardner [naclo16org at umich.edu]
Subject: Final Call for Participation in NACLO

 
Final call for participation in NACLO - the North American Computational
Linguistics Olympiad 
www.nacloweb.org

“Serious language puzzles that are surprisingly fun!”
- Will Shortz, Crossword editor for The New York Times

Contest dates:
Open round: January 28, 2016 
Invitational round: March 10, 2016
Registration deadline: 
January 14, 2016

Contact: 
naclo16org at umich.edu 

The Tenth Annual North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO)
will take place on January 28, 2016 (Open Round) and March 10, 2016
(Invitational Round). 

Thousands of students are expected to compete in this year's NACLO, which
builds reasoning and logic skills through the solving of linguistic problems.
The top students are invited to represent the US and Canada at the
International Linguistics Olympiad; in 2015, NACLO students took eight
individual medals (including three gold medals) and a team medal at the IOL.

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 (Jan. 28) contest to local high school students.
Students can participate either at their own high school or at a university
site. See http://www.nacloweb.org for a list of currently available sites. 
2. Hosting a site in 2017 (or even 2016). 
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 January 28, 2016 (during the designated time slot for your time
zone). You will proctor the contest for three 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: 

Program committee - write and test problems for the national contest
Organizing committee - help plan and organize the national contest
Fundraising committee - help find sponsors for the student trip to the
international contest

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: 

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

Thank you very much for your help in raising the profile of linguistics among
school students. Please contact naclo16org at umich.edu if you have questions or
would like to participate. 

You can find more information about NACLO, such as sample problems,
registration deadlines and registration forms, at www.nacloweb.org.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics





 



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