NACLO at the LSA
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This just in from Drago Radev: NACLO — the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad — will have a booth at this week's Linguistic Society of America meeting at the Hilton San Francisco from today until Sunday noon. Language Log readers who visit the meeting should drop by to hear about the North American teams' successes at the international 2007 and 2008 Olympiads, and about plans for the imminent 2009 Olympiad. Those of you who don't yet know about the Olympiad might want to find out: the problems (samples also available on the NACLO website) are fun to solve. They require talent, but no training, in linguistics.
Many (most?) of us Language Loggers are also at the LSA, and some of us, e.g. me, have also been involved in running NACLO test sites, so feel free to accost us at the meetings too if you want to talk about NACLO. But Drago and Lori Levin and their colleagues will have all the answers to your questions at their booth.