LINGUIST List 22.4309 Mon Oct 31 2011 FYI: Call for Site Hosts: 2012 NACLO Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Graham Morehead , Call for Site Hosts: 2012 NACLO Message 1: Call for Site Hosts: 2012 NACLO Date: 27-Oct-2011 From: Graham Morehead <gmpangeon.com> Subject: Call for Site Hosts: 2012 NACLO 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: Round 1: Thursday, February 2 2012 Round 2: Tuesday, March 13 2012 Please respond: As soon as possible, but no later than December 15, 2011. Contact: naclo12orgumich.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, lslcs.cmu.edu Suggestions for competition problems: Dragomir Radev, radevumich.edu Becoming a university site host: naclo12orgumich.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 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 31-Oct-2011       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.