North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) 2020

2020 年北美计算语言学奥林匹克竞赛 (NACLO)

• 批准号: 1946109
• 负责人: Lorraine Levin
• 金额: $ 4.94万
• 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: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1946109&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: North; American; Computational; Linguistics; Olympiad

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, humanitarian aid, and 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 Open competition (NACLO) 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 eight high school linguists from across the United States and escorting them to the 2020 IOL. Since 2007, about twenty-five percent of US team members who attend IOL have continuing involvement with the fields of linguistics and language technologies. Nearly all team members take linguistics courses in college, bringing a broadened view of language to their studies and future careers.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.

语言学是研究语言的科学。语言学家对世界上超过6000种语言的结构进行正式研究，调查典型和非典型人群对语言的习得和使用，试图理解使人类能够学习和使用语言的神经结构，并创建用于计算环境的语言模型，如人工智能和机器翻译。该领域应用的广度使其对技术和医疗进步、全球经济中的经济竞争力、人道主义援助和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，投入资源向高中生介绍这一领域，并招募国内最聪明的人从事语言学事业是至关重要的。该项目支持北美计算语言学开放竞赛（NACLO）向高中生介绍语言学，为感兴趣的学生提供培训并为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，重点是创建和促进高中学生语言学大学先修课程的教学。具体来说，这笔拨款将用于培训一支由8名来自美国各地的高中语言学家组成的团队，并护送他们参加2020年国际人工晶状体大会。自2007年以来，大约25%参加IOL的美国团队成员继续参与语言学和语言技术领域。几乎所有的团队成员都在大学里修过语言学课程，为他们的学习和未来的职业生涯带来了更广阔的语言视野。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。