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1. committee results North AmericanWinners International Olympiad in Russia Organizing Committee 2007 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 1. Rachel Zax 2. Ryan Musa 3. Adam Hesteberg 4. Jeffrey Lim 5/6. Rebecca Jacobs 5/6. Michael Gottlieb 7/8. Mitha Nandagopalan 7/8. Josh Falk 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. North AmericanWinners International Olympiad in Bulgaria 2008 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. 1. Guy Tabachnick 2. Jeffrey Lim 3. Josh Falk 4. Anand Natarajan 5. Jae-Kyu Lee 6. Rebecca Jacobs 7. Hanzhi Zhu 8. Morris Alper Contact us: www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu naclo09org@umich.edu www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu 2009 North American Computation Linguistics Olympiad

2. 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 tōn hylōn duloshoi tōn dulōn cyrioihoi tu emporu adlphoihoi tōn onōn emporoiho tu cyriu onosho tu oicu cyriosho tōn adelphōn oicoshoi tōn cyrlōn 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 www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu 2009 North American Computation Linguistics Olympiad