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NACLO 2012 at the University of Washington
 The North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad
 Do you enjoy solving puzzles? Are you interested in languages? Are you a middle or high school student (6th-12th grade) in the Seattle or Puget Sound area?

The North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO 2012) is an international contest in which high school students solve linguistic puzzles. Students learn about the diversity and consistency of language, while using logic skills to solve the problems. No prior knowledge of linguistics or other languages is necessary.

Professionals in linguistics, computational linguistics, and language technologies use dozens of the world's languages to create engaging problems for the Olympiad. The competition attracts top students, many of whom choose later on to study and work in the field. This is a fantastic opportunity for young people to experience a taste of natural language processing in the 21st century.

 Interested?

Dates
  • Registration: We request that students register by January 27, 2012. The registration site is at http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu/reg_student.php. On the second page of the registration form, select University Site and the University of Washington as the Contest Site.
  • Open Round: The Open Round of the competition is on Thursday, Februrary 2nd, 2012, 9am-12pm. Puget Sound area students will participate at one of three local high schools, not at the University of Washington. The contest sites are: Lakeside Upper School (Seattle and Central Sound), Sammamish High School (Eastside), and Wilson High School (Tacoma and South Sound).
  • Invitational Round: The Invitational Round of the competition will take place on Tuesday, March 13th, 2012. The top 100 performers from the Open Round will be invited to participate.
  • International Competition: Eight students will be selected to represent North America at the 9th International Linguistic Olympiad to be held in Slovenia in July 2012.

Local Arrangements
 In the Seattle and Puget Sound area, NACLO is organized by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington. The local organizer is Jim Hoard. You can contact him by email at jim_hoard@hotmail.com.

NACLO 2012 is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, D.E. Shaw, Yahoo, Carnegie Mellon Univ., the Univ. of Michigan, and the Univ. of Pittsburgh Intelligent Systems Program.

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