SGER: Collaborative Research: New Problem Genres for the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad

NACLO是一项高中奥林匹克语言学和语言技术竞赛。制定竞赛问题并非易事，因为竞赛没有先决条件。由于学生不被期望了解语言学、特定语言、高等数学或计算机编程，所以问题必须是独立的，但仍然必须测试诸如算法思维、抽象表示解空间、缩减解空间和评估解的技能。这些技能代表了计算思维，即计算机科学中不涉及计算机的部分。一些问题还引入了语言学的工具和语言技术，如有限状态机和上下文无关文法。因此，更广泛地说，这笔用于探索性研究的小额赠款解决了设计培训课程和竞赛问题的新问题，这些问题向高中生介绍计算思维，因为它适用于人类语言的处理。该项目的重要性是鼓励学生学习语言学和计算机科学，并增加这些领域的参与度和多样性。

NACLO is a high school Olympiad contest in linguistics and language technologies. Formulating contest problems is not straightforward because the contest does not have pre-requisites. Because students are not expected to know linguistics, specific languages, advanced math, or computer programming, the problems must be self-contained, and yet must still test the skills such as algorithmic thinking, abstractly representing a solution space, reducing a solution space, and evaluating a solution. These skills represent computational thinking, the part of computer science that does not involve computers. Some problems also introduce tools of linguistics and language technologies such as finite state machines and context free grammars. So more generally, this Small Grant for Exploratory research tackles the new problem of designing a curriculum of training sessions and contest problems that introduce high school students to computational thinking as it applies to the processng of human languages. The importance of the project is to inspire students to study linguistics and computer science and to increase participation and diversity in those fields.