Re: [ (MC)^2 ] Linguistics Competition on Thursday 1/29/2015

[MercerCounty MathCircle]

Hi all,

This olympiad is happening again this year, on January 29, 2015. Read the email below from last year for details from last year. The link to the competition is here: http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu/index.html

Best regards,

Ante Qu

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alan Chang <ac...@princeton.edu>
Date: Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:43 PM
Subject: [ (MC)^2 ] Linguistics Competition on Thursday 1/30/2014
To: mc2-...@googlegroups.com

Hi (MC)^2!

I'm writing to let you know of something that may be of interest to mathematically minded students.

The 2014 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad will take place on Thursday, January 30, 2014 from 10am to 1pm. It will be administered at Princeton University. It is open to high school and middle school students.

I've attached some past NACLO problems. As you can see, these are all logic-based. (I like the Warlpiri Kinship Groups problem in the .pdf because it is particularly mathematical. And also because I wrote it. :D)

No knowledge of linguistics is necessary. In fact, no preparation is needed either. (In 2010, I took the exam completely unprepared and managed to do pretty well. I also had lots of fun.) Just show up with your problem solving skills!

You can learn more about the competition and register here: http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu/index.html

Thanks!

Alan

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "(MC)^2 Announcements" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mc2-list+u...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

--

Mercer County Math Circle
mercercountymathcircle.wordpress.com