The International Linguistics Olympiad: Preparing High School Students for the Study of Human Language and Computation

国际语言学奥林匹克：为高中生学习人类语言和计算做好准备

• 批准号: 1137828
• 负责人: Lorraine Levin
• 金额: $ 4万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-01 至 2012-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1137828&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Linguistics; Olympiad; Preparing; Students

More than 100 of the world's brightest and most motivated high school students will gather in Pittsburgh in July 2011 for the 9th International Linguistics Olympiad. Unlike math and science Olympiads, which focus on material students have already mastered, linguistics Olympiads introduce new material through logic puzzles in languages unfamiliar to the students. In the course of solving a puzzle, the students can discover something about the grammar or sounds of a language, its conceptual system, its culture, or its historical relationship to other languages. In addition to fostering insight into human linguistic and cultural diversity, this competition fosters meta-linguistic reasoning that is essential for computer science, language technologies, and indeed any career involving analytical problem-solving skills and the ability to present a logical argument supported by data. Because it has been the tradition of linguistics Olympiads to assign half of the score for the written explanation of the answer, the contests also encourage the ability to clearly present a hypothesis and explain how it is supported by the data.More information and past contest puzzles can be found at: http://www.ioling.org and http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu.

2011年7月，100多名世界上最聪明、最有动力的高中生将齐聚匹兹堡，参加第九届国际语言学奥林匹克竞赛。与数学和科学奥林匹克不同，它们侧重于学生已经掌握的材料，语言学奥林匹克通过逻辑谜题引入学生不熟悉的语言的新材料。 在解决一个难题的过程中，学生可以发现一些关于一种语言的语法或语音，它的概念系统，它的文化，或它与其他语言的历史关系。 除了培养对人类语言和文化多样性的洞察力外，这项比赛还培养了元语言推理，这对计算机科学，语言技术以及任何涉及分析解决问题的技能和提出数据支持的逻辑论点的能力都至关重要。 由于语言学奥林匹克竞赛的传统是将一半的分数分配给对答案的书面解释，因此竞赛也鼓励学生清楚地提出假设并解释数据如何支持它的能力。更多信息和过去的竞赛难题可以在以下网站找到：http://www.ioling.org和http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu。