LINGUIST List 21.3674 Fri Sep 17 2010 FYI: North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Susanne Vejdemo, North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad Message 1: North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad Date: 17-Sep-2010 From: Susanne Vejdemo <susannelinguistlist.org> Subject: North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad E-mail this message to a friend 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: Wednesday, February 2 (2011) and Thursday, March 10 (2011) Please respond: As soon as possible, but no later than December 15, 2010. Contact: naclo11orgumich.edu, www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu The Fourth Annual North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) will take place on February 2 and March 10 of 2011. Over the last two 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. In 2010, the top 100 contestants in the Open Round advanced to the Invitational Round of NACLO, and two teams then went to Sweden to compete at the International Linguistics Olympiad, and came home with a number of medals. In 2011, the ILO will be held in the United States. 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, 2011. 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, 2011. You will proctor the contest for three or four hours, and send the contestants' solutions to the judges. We invite linguists from around the world to serve on a NACLO committee. 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: Coordinates and liaises with universities around the country. -Program Committee: Creates and grades puzzles. -Sponsorship Committee: Works with new 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, lslcs.cmu.edu Suggestions for competition problems: Dragomir Radev, radevumich.edu Becoming a university site host: naclo11orgumich.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; General Linguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 17-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.