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2007 International Olympiad in Russia
Organizing Committee
Top TeamJoshua FalkMichael GottliebRebecca
JacobsAnna Tchetchetkine
Dragomir Radev,Program Chair and Head
CoachUniversity of Michigan Lori Levin, Chair
and CoachCarnegie Mellon University Adam
Hesterberg, Assistant CoachPrinceton
University Patrick Littell, Canadian
CoordinatorUniversity of British Columbia James
Pustejovsky, Sponsorship ChairBrandeis
University Amy Troyani, School LiaisonTaylor
Allderdice High School Eugene Fink and Ida Mayer,
WebsiteCarnegie Mellon University
The top US team shared the first/second place and
won a gold medal. The top US contestant, Adam
Hesteberg, took the first place in the individual
competition.
Second TeamAdam HestebergJeffrey LimRyan
MusaRachel Zax
2008 International Olympiad in Bulgaria
Top TeamMorris AlperRebecca JacobsJae-Kyu
LeeHanzhi Zhu
The top US team shared the first/second place and
won gold, and the other US team shared the
third/fourth 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.
Second TeamJosh FalkAnand NatarajanJeffrey
LimGuy Tabachnick
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sponsorship
who, what, when, where, why
Accepting donationsfor the 2009 NorthAmerican
Computational Linguistics Olympiad
First Round February 4 Second Round March
11 International Summer
Who High school and gifted middle school
students across the United States and Canada with
an interest in linguistics and computational
linguistics.
www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu/donations.html
We hope that you will help us pay for...
Example Problem (by Todor Tchervenkov)
What A contest of creativity and skill in
solving complex linguistics and computational
linguistics problems, with an opportunity to
advance to the international competition.

• Small expenses
• Copying, printing, and mailing
• Local transportation for contestants
• Prizes (cash and in-kind)
• Snacks during the contest

Consider the following phrases in AncientGreek
(in Roman transcription) and theirunordered
English translations. For eachGreek phrase,
identify its translation. Greek ho ton hylon
duloshoi ton dulon cyrioihoi tu emporu
adlphoihoi ton onon emporoiho tu cyriu onosho
tu oicu cyriosho ton adelphon oicoshoi ton
cyrlon hyioi English the donkey of the masterthe
brothers of the merchantthe merchants of the
donkeysthe sons of the masterthe slave of the
sonsthe master of the slavethe house of the
brothersthe master of the house
Where Selected universities and high schools
across North America.

• Large expenses
• Travel to the InternationalLinguistics Olympiad
• Summer training for the international teams
• Annual planning meeting of the organization
  committee

• 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

We will include the sponsorlogos on contest
materials.
More problems www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu/practice.php
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North American Computation Linguistics Olympiad