NACLO (North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad) is a competition for 6th to 12th graders in linguistics--the science of language. It challenges you to develop your own strategies for solving problems in fascinating real languages and formal symbolic systems. Do you have a knack for languages, logic and "computational thinking"? Would you like to try your hand at deciphering an ancient script or deducing the logical patterns of Swahili, Hawaiian or Finite State Transducers? Maybe the Computational Linguistics Olympiad is the right challenge for you!
No previous knowledge of linguistics, languages, or computing is needed--all of the problems can be solved with reasoning skills alone.
Try some practice problems here!
What is NACLO?
Registration is free for all high school and middle school students.
There will be a training session January 23, 2010 from 10 AM to 1 PM near the Johns Hopkins campus.
Training Session
When: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 10 AM - 1 PM
Where: The Center of Excellence
Stieff Building/810 Wyman Park Drive
Baltimore, Maryland 21211-2840
Please email us at jhu.naclo@gmail.com to RSVP for the training session.
January 20,2010 (Wednesday)
Early Registration Deadline
February 3, 2010 (Wednesday)
Final Deadline for registration (12:00 pm)
February 4, 2010 (Thursday)
NACLO Open Competition (First Round)
When: 10 AM - 1 PM
Where: The Center of Excellence
Stieff Building/810 Wyman Park Drive
Baltimore, Maryland 21211-2840
March 10, 2010 (Wednesday)
NACLO Invitational (Second Round)
Important Dates
The Center for Language and Speech Processing and the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence at Johns Hopkins University will be hosting the Open Round Competition of the 2010 NACLO at its Homewood campus on February 4, 2010 at 10 am.
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