NACLO at Simon Fraser University

NACLO

SFU is a local site for the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO). NACLO is a fun and educational contest for U.S. and Canadian high-school students in which contestants compete to solve compelling and creative puzzles in linguistics and computational linguistics. Requiring no previous knowledge of linguistics, languages, or computing, the puzzles can be solved by analytic reasoning alone, and serve as a stimulating introduction to the field of linguistics. In solving the problems, students learn about the richness, diversity and systematicity of language, while exercising natural logic and reasoning skills.

Students from high schools across North America compete in the Open Round. Top students from the Open Round travel to the Invitational Round. Winners of the Invitational have a chance to represent their country (USA or Canada) at the International Linguistics Olympiad.

Important dates and registration

Register: If you are interested in competing in NACLO at SFU, use the online registration system at NACLO registration page.

Open Round: Thursday Feb. 2 (Location: Maggie Benston 2290, Simon Fraser University; note the test takes most of the morning; locate this room on SFU online map) 

Invitation Round: Tuesday Mar. 13 (Location: Robert C. Brown building 7201, SFU; find it on the map)

NACLO test preparation session: Saturday Jan. 21, 10am-12am (Location: West Mall Complex 2260, SFU; find it on the map)

Facebook page: NACLO SFU

To get all the announcements about NACLO hosted at SFU, and have fun learning about past test problems, please like the Facebook page 'NACLO SFU'.