The 2011 NACLO Competition
Tentative Dates
February 2, 2011
NACLO Open (First Round)
March 10, 2011
NACLO Invitational (Second Round)

Student Registration



Program Committee

  • Dragomir Radev, Unversity of Michigan (co-chair)
  • Patrick Littell, University of British Columbia (co-chair)
  • Adam Hesterberg, Princeton University
  • Aleka Blackwell, Middle Tennessee State University
  • Alexander Iriza, Princeton University
  • Amy Troyani, Taylor Allderdice High School
  • Anatole Gershman, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania
  • Barbara Partee, University of Massachusetts
  • Ben Sklaroff, University of California at Berkeley
  • Ben Snyder, University of Wisconsin
  • Boris Iomdin, Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Bozhidar Bozhanov, University of London
  • Catherine Sheard, Yale University
  • Chris Davis, University of Texas, Dallas
  • David Mortensen, University of Pittsburgh
  • Dick Hudson, University College London
  • Dominique Estival
  • Eric Breck, Rhodes College
  • Emily Bender, University of Washington
  • Eugene Fink, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Harold Somers, Dublin City University, Ireland
  • Ivan Derzhanski, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University
  • Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University
  • Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University
  • John Berman, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
  • Jorge Hankamer, University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Joshua Katz, Princeton University
  • Julia Hockenmeier, University of Illinois
  • Karuvannur Mohanan, National University of Singapore
  • Kate Taralova, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Mary Laughren
  • Nathan Schneider, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Rebecca Jacobs, University of Chicago
  • Richard Sproat, Oregon Health and Science University
  • Richard Wicentowski, Swarthmore College
  • Scott Mackie, University of British Columbia
  • Steven Bird, University of Melbourne
  • Susanne Verdemo, Eastern Michigan University
  • Xiaojin "Jerry" Zhu, University of Wisconsin

Organising Committee

  • James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University (co-chair)
  • Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University (co-chair)
  • Adam Hesterberg, Princeton University
  • Aleka Blackwell, Middle Tennessee State University
  • Amy Troyani, Taylor Allderdice High School
  • David Mortensen, University of Pittsburgh
  • Eugene Fink, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Josh Falk, Stanford University
  • Julia Workman
  • Ketty Gann, Boeing
  • Mary Jo Bensasi, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Susanne Verdemo, Eastern Michigan University
  • Yilu Zhou, George Washington University
Round 1 Round 2

IOL Press Release

NACLO has published this press release (MS Word) on the performance of the US Team in the International Linguistic Olympiad.

Winners Press Release

On 29 May 2011, the NACLO published a press release (MS Word) announcing this year's winners.

Best Solutions

The best solutions for NACLO 2011 are as follows:
  • H - Mohan Yin (1069)
  • I - Lily Chen (3)
  • J - Duligur Ibeling (7)
  • K - Daniel Mitropolsky (696)
  • L - Wesley Jones (445)
  • M - Jessica Morrise (416)
  • N - Zixiao Wang (563)

Problems and Solutions

Problems and solutions are now posted on the Contest page.

Round 2 Scores

The grades from the NACLO 2012 Invitational Round have now been posted. Team selection for the ILO will happen separately, and the top participants will be contacted personally. Please email radev@umich.edu with any questions about the teams and email naclo11jury@umich.edu with questions about the scoring. The problems and solutions from both the Open and the Invitational Round will be posted by Saturday night. We will also post a press release soon, and certificates will be sent out to participants. The names of the top 20 participants will also be posted soon.

Qualifiers

The full list of students who qualified for the second round is here here Please contact naclo11jury@umich.edu if you have any questions. Here is the Invitation to the NACLO 2012.

Award

The North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) has won the Linguistics Society of America's Linguistics, Language, and the Public award for 2011. For more see this announcement.

ILO 8

Here's the info on how the US team did in this year's ILO.


Questions about the site? Email gm [at] pangeon [dot] com

University Sites

United States

Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)     [ local NACLO page]
Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)     [ local NACLO page]
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
Central Connecticut State University (New Britain, CT)
Columbia University (New York, NY)     [ local NACLO page]
Georgetown University (Washington, DC)     [ local NACLO page]
Howard University (Washington, DC)
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)     [ local NACLO page]
Middle Tennessee State University (Murphreesboro, TN)     [ local NACLO page]
Minnesota State Unviersity (Mankato, MN)     [ local NACLO page]
Northeastern Illinois University (Chicago, IL)     [ local NACLO page]
Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)     [ local NACLO page]
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)     [ local NACLO page]
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY)     [ local NACLO page]
San Jose State University (San Jose, CA)     [ local NACLO page]
Stanford University (Stanford, CA)     [ local NACLO page]
University at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY)     [ local NACLO page]
University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL)     [ local NACLO page]
University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)     [ local NACLO page]
University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder, CO)     [ local NACLO page]
University of Great Falls (Great Falls, MT)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana-Champaign, IL)     [ local NACLO page]
University of Illinois, Chicago (Chicago, IL)     [ local NACLO page]
University of Maine (Orono, ME)     [ local NACLO page]
University of Memphis (Memphis, TN)     [ local NACLO page]
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)     [ local NACLO page]
University of North Texas (Denton, TX)     [ local NACLO page]
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)     [ local NACLO page]
University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)     [ local NACLO page]
University of Southern California (ISI campus, Marina del Rey, CA)     [ local NACLO page]
University of Texas at Dallas (Dallas, TX)     [ local NACLO page]
University of Washington (Seattle, WA)     [ local NACLO page]
University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI)     [ local NACLO page]
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI)     [ local NACLO page]
Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)     [ local NACLO page]

Canada

Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS)     [ local NACLO page]
Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC)     [ local NACLO page]
University of Lethbridge (Lethbridge, AB)