Workshop: International Linguistics Olympiad (ILO) July 2019; Yongin, South Korea

语言学是一门研究语言的科学。语言学家对世界上6000多种语言的结构进行正式研究，调查典型和非典型人群中语言的习得和使用情况，寻求了解使人类能够学习和使用语言的神经结构，并创建在计算环境中使用的语言模型，如人工智能和机器翻译。该领域的广泛应用使其对技术和医学进步、在全球经济中的经济竞争力以及美国国家安全至关重要。鉴于该领域对国家的多方面重要性，至关重要的是投入资源将该领域介绍给高中生，并招募全国最聪明的人才从事语言学事业。该项目支持北美计算语言学奥林匹克竞赛(NACLO)组织的使命，向高中生介绍语言学，为感兴趣的学生提供培训和向他们的老师提供支持，选择和指导代表美国参加国际语言学奥林匹克竞赛(IOL)的美国学生团队，并支持美国语言学会(LSA)目前的工作，重点是为高中生创建和促进语言学高级选修课程的教学。具体地说，这笔赠款支持培训一个由来自美国各地的8名高中语言学家组成的团队，并护送他们参加在韩国永银举行的2019年IOL。此外，LSA AP语言学委员会的两名成员将与教练和团队成员一起进行研究，为委员会在高中环境中促进语言学的努力提供信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Linguistics is the science of language. Linguists conduct formal studies of the structure of the world's over 6,000 languages, investigate the acquisition and use of language in typical and atypical populations, seek to understand the neural structures that enable humans to learn and use language, and create the language models used in computational contexts, such as artificial intelligence and machine translation. The breadth of the field's applications makes it vital to technological and medical advancements, economic competitiveness in a global economy, as well as U.S. national security. Given the multi-faceted importance of the field for the country, it is crucial to devote resources to the introduction of this field to high school students, and to recruit the brightest minds in the country to pursue careers in linguistics.This project supports the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) organization in its mission to introduce linguistics to high school students, to provide training to interested students and support to their teachers, to select and coach the team of U.S. students that represent the country at the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL), and to support the current work of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) focused on creating and promoting the teaching of an Advanced Placement course in linguistics for high school students. Specifically, the grant supports the costs associated with training a team of 8 high school linguists from across the United States and escorting them to the 2019 IOL in Yongin, Korea. In addition, two members of the LSA Committee on AP Linguistics will join the coaches and team members to conduct research to inform the committee's efforts to promote linguistics in high school contexts.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.