Workshop: The International Linguistics Olympiad

研讨会：国际语言学奥林匹克竞赛

• 批准号: 1632453
• 负责人: James Pustejovsky
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: Brandeis University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1632453&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; International; Linguistics; Olympiad

Attracting and training new students in linguistics is essential to meeting the nation's needs for research in language and communication. This award will provide travel support for two teams of American high school students to participate in the 14th International Linguistics Olympiad, which will take place in Mysore, India, from July 25th through July 29th, 2016. More than 100 of the world's brightest and most motivated high school students will gather for the Linguistics Olympiad. The American teams, each comprised of four students, were top finishers in the 2016 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO). The International Linguistics Olympiad provides students with a hands-on experience of the scientific approach to linguistics and the documentation and analysis of language. Unlike math and science Olympiads, which focus on material that 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 associated 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.

吸引和培训语言学的新学生对于满足国家在语言和沟通方面的研究需求至关重要。该奖项将为两支美国高中学生提供旅行支持，参加2016年7月25日至2016年7月29日在印度迈索尔举行的第14个国际语言学奥林匹克运动会。世界上最聪明，最积极的高中生将聚集在语言学上。美国团队由四名学生组成，是2016年北美计算语言学奥林匹克（NACLO）的最高冠军。国际语言学奥林匹克运动会为学生提供有关语言学科学方法以及语言文档和分析的动手经验。与数学和科学奥林匹克运动会不同，专注于学生已经掌握的材料，语言学奥林匹克运动会通过不熟悉学生的语言来引入新材料。在解决难题的过程中，学生可以发现有关语法，其概念体系，相关文化或与其他语言的历史关系的信息。除了培养对人类语言和文化多样性的见解外，这项竞争还促进了对计算机科学，语言技术以及任何涉及分析问题解决问题技能的职业至关重要的元语言推理，并具有提出数据支持的逻辑论点的能力。