International Linguistics Olympiad (ILO) 2018: Prague, CZ, July 26 - August 1, 2018

2018 年国际语言学奥林匹克 (ILO)：捷克布拉格，2018 年 7 月 26 日至 8 月 1 日

• 批准号: 1757042
• 负责人: Lorraine Levin
• 金额: $ 2.93万
• 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: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-01 至 2020-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1757042&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Linguistics; Olympiad; ILO; 2018

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 16th International Linguistics Olympiad, which will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, in July 26-30, 2018. 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 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO), held in January and March, 2018. 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. Because it has been the tradition of linguistics Olympiads to base half of the score on 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. After attending a training session at Carnegie Mellon University, the US team will travel to Prague to compete with teams from 30 other countries. The IOL serves as a capstone international experience for the winners of NACLO, allowing the team members to compete and interact with other students who share their talents and interests.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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2018年7月26日至30日在捷克共和国布拉格举行的第16届国际语言学奥林匹克运动会。全球最聪明，最有积极性的高中生将聚集在语言学上。美国团队由四名学生组成，是北美计算语言学奥林匹克运动会（NACLO）的最高冠军，该团队于2018年1月和3月举行。国际语言学奥林匹克运动会为学生提供了语言学科学方法的动手经验以及语言和语言的文档和分析。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。因为这是语言学奥林匹克运动会的传统，将分数的一半以书面解释为基础，所以竞赛还鼓励能够清楚地提出假设并解释如何得到数据支持。 在卡内基·梅隆大学（Carnegie Mellon University）参加了培训课程后，美国团队将前往布拉格（Prague）与其他30个国家的球队竞争。 IOL是NACLO的获奖者的顶峰国际经验，使团队成员能够与其他分享他们的才华和利益的学生竞争并互动。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来进行评估的。