22.4309, FYI: Call for Site Hosts: 2012 NACLO

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Date: 27-Oct-2011
From: Graham Morehead [gm at pangeon.com]
Subject: Call for Site Hosts: 2012 NACLO


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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:38:41
From: Graham Morehead [gm at pangeon.com]
Subject: Call for Site Hosts: 2012 NACLO

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Call for site hosts:  North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad 

Help shape the Linguistics Community of the future - become a host 
site for the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad 
(NACLO) 

Contest dates: 
Round 1: Thursday, February 2 2012
Round 2: Tuesday, March 13 2012

Please respond: 
As soon as possible, but no later than December 15, 2012. 

Contact: 
naclo12org at umich.edu
www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu 

Over the last five years close to 100 high schools and more than 30 
universities in the United States and Canada hosted more than 1000 
students annually in this competition.  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. Hosting a 'site' for the Open Round of NACLO on February 2, 2012. 
2. Serving on a NACLO committee. 
3. Suggesting problems to be used in future Olympiads. 

Hosting a site involves inviting high school students from your area to 
your university on February 2, 2012. You will proctor the contest for 
three or four hours, and send the contestants' solutions to the judges. 

We invite all linguists and computer scientists working within the 
framework of Computational Linguistics to serve on a NACLO 
committee. 

Committees in need of members at this point are: 
-Home Team: Liaises with universities around the country. 
-Program Committee: Creates and grades puzzles. 
-Sponsorship Committee: Works with sponsors for the event. 

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 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: naclo12org at umich.edu 

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



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics





 





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