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1、Team 2 Joshua Falk Michael Gottlieb Rebecca Jacobs Anna Tchetchetkine,results,US Team 2 shared the first/second place and won a gold medal. The top US contestant, Adam Hesteberg, took the first place in the individual competition.,Organizing Committee,North American Computation Linguistics Olympiad,

2、2009,www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu,committee,Dragomir Radev, Program Chair and Head Coach University of Michigan Lori Levin, Chair and Coach Carnegie Mellon University Adam Hesterberg, Assistant Coach Princeton University Patrick Littell, Canadian Coordinator University of British Columbia James Pustejovsky,

3、 Sponsorship Chair Brandeis University Amy Troyani, School Liaison Taylor Allderdice High School Eugene Fink and Ida Mayer, Website Carnegie Mellon University,www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu,naclo09orgumich.edu,US Team 2 shared the first/second place and won gold, and the other US team shared the third/fourth

4、place and won silver. The US contestants also got one gold (out of three), two silver (out of seven), and three bronze (out of ten) in the individual competition.,Contact us:,2007 International Olympiad in Russia,Team 1 Adam Hesteberg Jeffrey Lim Ryan Musa Rachel Zax,2008 International Olympiad in B

5、ulgaria,Team 2 Morris Alper Rebecca Jacobs Jae-Kyu Lee Hanzhi Zhu,Team 1 Josh Falk Anand Natarajan Jeffrey Lim Guy Tabachnick,North American Computation Linguistics Olympiad,who, what, when, where, why,sponsorship,Who High school and gifted middle school students across the United States and Canada

6、with an interest in linguistics and computational linguistics.,What A contest of creativity and skill in solving complex linguistics and computational linguistics problems, with an opportunity to advance to the international competition.,Where Selected universities and high schools across North Amer

7、ica.,Why show young people that linguistics is fun teach high school students about languages, cultures, and computational language technologies educate the public about linguistics encourage students to think about careers in linguistics and computational linguistics,First Round: February 4 Second

8、Round: March 11 International: Summer,2009,www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu,Example Problem (by Todor Tchervenkov),Consider the following phrases in Ancient Greek (in Roman transcription) and their unordered English translations. For each Greek phrase, identify its translation.,Accepting donations for the 2009

9、North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad,We hope you will help us pay for.,Small expenses: Copying, printing, and mailing Local transportation for contestants Prizes (cash and in-kind) Snacks during the contest,Large expenses: Travel to the International Linguistics Olympiad Summer training

10、 for the international teams Annual planning meeting of the organization committee,We will include the sponsor logos on contest materials.,www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu/donations.html,More problems: www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu/practice.php,Greek ho tn hyin dulos hoi tn duln cyrioi hoi tu emporu adelphoi hoi tn onn emporoi,English the donkey of the master the brothers of the merchant the merchants of the donkeys the sons of the master the slave of the sons the masters of the slaves the house of the brothers the master of the house,ho tu cyriu onos ho tu oicu cyrios ho tn adelphn oicos hoi tn cyrin hyioi,