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North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO)
NACLO is held in the USA and in Canada. High school students in New Jersey can participate at the local competition site at Montclair State University.
Students can register for the contest online with the central North American organization: http://www.nacloweb.org/register_student.php
The principle NACLO site (http://nacloweb.org/) has rules and practice problems for students to review, and all the details about the event.
See practice problems at http://www.nacloweb.org/practice.php.
Linguistics is not usually introduced at the high-school level, so students who enter college are often unaware of it as a choice. Linguistics is the general study of language. It addresses such questions as properties that languages have in common; how language is learned, produced, and understood; how languages change through time and vary across geographic regions or social strata; and the design of language technologies such as speech recognition, machine translation and information retrieval.
NACLO is currently sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, Google, the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), and Cambridge University Press.
Top scorers in the Open Round in January will be eligible to compete in an Invitational Round on March 9, 2017. Winners of that competition will be eligible to participate in the International Linguistics Olympiad (ILO) (http://www.iol2017.ie/) which will take place on July 31-August 4, 2017.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at feldmana@montclair.edu