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There is an Open Round in which anyone can participate. Those who do well
in the open round are invited to participate in a second, Invitational Round,
and the top scoring students in the invitational round are considered for
spots on the US team that competes at the International Linguistics Olympiad.
The home page for NACLO is
NACLO is run by faculty members at the University of Michigan and
Carnegie-Mellon University.
The Open Round competition takes place at contest sites across the country.
The Western Michigan University Department of Computer Science is one of
the contest sites. This year, the Open Round takes place:
Thursday, Jan 28, 2016
10:00 am - 1:00 pm. Participants should arrive by 9:30 -
The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
A sign in table will be at the front enterance of the building
starting at 9:00 AM.
Parking Tags will be available at the sign in table. Please contact
John Kapenga
john.kapenga@wmich.edu
if you will need a parking tag.
We are planning on providing lunch and short tours after the contest
ends at 1:00 for anyone interested.
The WMU Sunseeker solar race car and the HPCS High Preformance cluster computer
can be viewed along other facilities.
Dr. John Kapenga
E-Mail:
john.kapenga@wmich.edu
NACLO
The North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO)
is an annual competition in which high school students solve linguistics
problems drawn from a variety of languages. Only logic and reasoning
skills are necessary; no prior knowledge of particular languages or
of linguistics is required. You can see examples of the sort of problems
involved here.
Participating locally at Western Michigan University
To participate, you just need to register at the NACLO web site.
If you have questions about the local contest site, you can send email
the competition starts promptly at 10:00, and we will go over rules
and any questions beforehand.
Parkview Campus, Western Michigan Universiy
4601 Campus Drive
Kalamazoo, MI 49008
Department of Computer Science
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5314 USA
Cell: 269-377-4243 | CS office: 269-276-3101
