North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>This is basically a Linguistics version of the Science Olympiads, and it will be held for the first time this year.</p>

<p>There will be a live competition in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Boston, but if enough people sign up, there will be an Internet Competition too.</p>

<p>And this will also decide who will represent the US at the ILO, International Linguistics Olympiad.</p>

<p>There's a lot more information at the website, <a href="http://www.namclo.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.namclo.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>"Linguistics"...what precisely does that entail?</p>

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<p>Check out the web page... I tried the problem on there and had absolutely no idea what to do. </p>

<p>But then I read the solution.</p>

<p>Oh wait, I still don't get it.</p>

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<p>wow...insane.</p>

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<p>yah so those problems were hard >_<</p>

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<p>I solved the first one! And I didn't use the answer! My first word was "attach" and the last one was "heckle." Can anyone guess the rest?</p>

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<p>Sorry to resurect this post from so long ago, but did anybody else participate in the NACLO this year? I'm anxiously awaiting the results.</p>

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<p>It doesn't look horribly hard. Some knowledge of linguistics and a good deal of logic will straighten out some of the problems.</p>

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<p>I wouldn't say this entails linguistics; this is all logic-based. I had to pull out pen and paper to figure those out, and then I see Asians at a computer solving them in their heads. Darn Asians! Guess I am out ... ;-)</p>

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<p>The green ones were easy, but the harder ones...</p>

<p>I still can't figure out the Czech one.</p>

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<p>these questions sound like computer science AP prompt questions... the principles are the same(using different algorithms for sorting and searching, storing information, etc.) or just basic logical thinking skills for the first one</p>

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<p>So does anyone on HSL know what the cutoff is for NACLO?</p>

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<p>Hey, I got one!</p>

<p>I'm introducing this to my school, lol.</p>

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<p>wow. this is old</p>

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<p>i would be epicly pro at this but I don't think any of them are close enough to me.
edit: nvm you have to go twice to qualify for nationals. Although I need to see if I can qualify after first round, or else i would look like a dumbass. can somebody give a set of first round problems and answers and the expected score to qualify?</p>

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<p>This was fun! Anyone else do it?</p>

<p>I had noooo idea what to expect, so I'm pretty proud of how I did. I dunno if I'll qualify for the next round or anything -- probably not -- but I'll be interested to see the solutions.</p>

<p>Since this thread is old... here's the new website: NACLO</a> 2009</p>

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<p>Haha I was registered to take it, but couldn't as today was my high school exit exam...</p>