The North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad at...

TheNorthAmericanComputationalLinguisticsOlympiadatUCIrvine

When?•  RegistrationDeadline–January24,2018•  OpenRound–January25,2018Where?•  UCIrvinecampus,alongwith200other

sitesinUSandCanada•  Detailsatthesitebelow:

http://sites.uci.edu/naclo

What?•  Acompetitionforhighschoolstudents

interestedinlinguistics,languages,andcomputerscience

•  Interestingpuzzles•  Paperandpencilcontest•  Noprerequisitesneeded,onlylogicand

analyticalskills!(seesamplesonline)•  EasierproblemsintheOpenRound•  HarderproblemsintheInvitationalRound

–nationalselectionoftheUSteamfortheinternationalolympiad

WhatisLinguistics?•  Thestudyofhumanlanguage•  Phonetics:howspokensoundsareproduced

andheard•  Syntax:howsentencesarestructured•  Semantics:meaningofwordsandsentences•  Sociolinguistics:howlanguageusevaries

http://sites.uci.edu/naclo

InternationalLinguisticsOlympiad•  http://www.ioling.org•  Morethan30countriesparticipate•  USteamshavewonmostgoldmedals•  ILO2018willbeheldinPrague Contact

•  SameerSingh:sameer@uci.edu•  LisaPearl:lpearl@uci.edu•  GregScontras:g.scontras@uci.edu

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