29.120, FYI: Final call for participation in NACLO

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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 17:37:45
From: Ali Sharman [naclo18org 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 25, 2018 
Invitational round: March 8, 2018 
Site registration deadline: January 16, 2018
Student registration deadline: January 24, 2018

Contact: naclo18org at umich.edu 

The Twelfth Annual North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO)
will take place on January 25, 2018 (Open Round) and March 8, 2018
(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.
There is no prerequisite knowledge and no registration fee. The top students
are invited to represent the US and Canada at the International Linguistics
Olympiad; in 2017, NACLO students took home six medals and one Best Solution
Award at the IOL, which was hosted in Dublin, Ireland.

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. 25) 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.
Student and site registration is via the website.
2. Hosting a site in 2019 (or even 2018). 
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 25, 2018 (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 and a style guide
for problem creation are at: 

http://pages.uoregon.edu/tpayne/ProblemCreation.pdf
http://littell.nfshost.com/papers/NACLO_Style_Guide_v3.pdf

Thank you very much for your help in raising the profile of linguistics among
school students. Please contact naclo18org 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.

For the Francophone Canadian contest, please see the Olympiade Linguistique
Canadienne – Canadian Linguistics Olympiad (OLC-CLO) site, at
https://olclo.org, for registration and information.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics





 



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