The regional competition for high school students to participate in the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad NACLO 2016 will take place on Thursday, January 28, 2016. The HiLT Lab in the UNT Department of Computer Science and Engineering will be hosting the competition.
UNT’s NACLO enrollment is in the top five in North America, along with Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University and University of Washington.
NACLO is an educational competition in Computational Linguistics, the science of designing computer algorithms to solve linguistic problems. It challenges students to develop strategies for tackling problems in real languages and formal symbolic systems. Dr. Rodney Nielsen, Associate Professor, and Genene Murphy, CSE Staff, will supervise this event, along with HiLT PhD students Nishitha Guntakandla and Natalie Parde and undergraduate lab assistant Erin Eversoll. A special thanks to Dr. Ian Parberry for allowing his lab to be used for the competition. More information is available at this HiLT Lab News & Events page.