The North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad is an international contest for all high school students (8th through 12th grade) interested in languages and solving linguistic puzzles. Through linguistic puzzle solving, students can see the rich diversity as well as commonality in world languages. No prior knowledge of linguistics or second language is necessary to participate in the contest.
- Find out more about NACLO
- Check out the NACLO Handbook
- Solve some of the practice problems
- Register to participate in NACLO 2016
- Find resources for linguistics clubs
Dates
- Registration deadline for NACLO 2016: January 21, 2016
- The 2016 Open (First) round is scheduled for January 28, 2016
- The 2016 Invitational round is scheduled for March 10, 2016
Local Arrangements
NACLO 2016 will be organized by the computer science department at University of Nebraska at Omaha located in room PKI 250, Peter Kiewit Institute, 1110 S 67th St, Omaha, NE 68182. The local organizer is Ashwathy Ashokan from the Department of Computer Science.
NACLO 2016 is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Linguistic Society of America, the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Yahoo, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Michigan, the University of Pittsburgh Intelligent Systems Program, and many other generous individuals and departments.