Planning Workshop for a Computational Linguistics Olympiad

语言学不包括在高中课程中。 然而，它是学术界，教育，政府，国家安全和信息技术职业的丰富领域。 它与认知科学、社会科学和行为科学一样重要. 计算语言学结合了语言分析与理论和算法的考虑。 作为人类信息技术的一个子领域，它是信息技术的科学基础之一，涉及语音、信息检索和通用访问。 在这个项目中，30多名计算语言学的教师和研究生正在合作计划一个针对高中生的计算语言学奥林匹克竞赛（CLO）。我们设想的CLO将包括语言分析以及算法思维，以吸引可能追求人类语言技术的学生。 一个理想的比赛将独立于训练来识别人才。 因此，像计算机编程这样的技能，在性别和社会阶层之间分布不均匀，不应该被要求。 CLO的预期结果是识别有才华的学生，以便他们可以被告知获得他们需要的高等教育，以便在人类语言技术领域工作，最终目标是增加人类语言技术未来研究人员的规模和多样性。

Linguistics is not included in high school curricula. Nevertheless,it is a rich area for careers in academia, education, government,national security, and information technology. It is also importantas as cognitive, social, and behavioral science. ComputationalLinguistics combines linguistic analysis with mathemetical andalgorithmic considerations. As a sub-area of Human LanguageTechnologies, it is one of the scientific bases of informationtechnologies involving speech, information retrieval, and universalaccess. In this project, more than 30 faculty and graduate studentsin Computational Linguistcs are collaborating to plan a ComputationalLinguistics Olympiad (CLO) contest targeted at high school students.The CLO as we envision it will include linguistic analysis as well asalgorithmic thinking in order to attract students who might pursuecareers in Human Language Technologies. An ideal contest wouldidentify talent independent of training. Therefore, skills likecomputer programming, which are not evenly distributed across genderand social class, should not be required. The intended outcome of theCLO is to identify talented students so that they can be advised toget the higher education they need in order to work in the field ofHuman Language Technologies, with the ultimate goal of increasing thesize and diversity of the pool of future researchers in Human LanguageTechnologies.