The Department of Linguistics is proud to announce the 2014 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad will be held, on the Ohio State campus, Thursday, January 30, 2014.
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 or Hawaiian? The Computational Linguistics Olympiad is the right challenge for you!
NACLO is an educational competition in linguistics -- the science of language. The format of the competition is a written test with linguistic puzzles which you solve and then explain your reasoning for that solution.
NACLO is designed for middle and high school students residing in North America (6th-12th grade). If you are not yet in 6th grade, and would still like to participate in NACLO, please contact naclo12org@umich.edu.
There are two rounds of the competition. The first is an open round. Top scorers in the Open Competition on January 30 will be eligible to compete in an Invitational Competition. Winners of the Invitational Competition will be eligible to represent North America at the International Linguistic Olympiad in summer 2014.
There is no participation fee for any NACLO event. More details about the event can be found on the national website at www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu.
