Conference: Training the US Computational Linguistics Team

会议：培训美国计算语言学团队

• 批准号: 2329963
• 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: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2329963&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Training; US; Computational; Linguistics

Linguistics is the science of language. The breadth of the field’s applications makes it vital to technological and medical advancements and economic competitiveness in a global economy, as well as U.S. national security. In addition, recent advances in Artifical Intelligence pertain to the robust use of human language by computers, potentially impacting many aspects of daily life. Given the multi-faceted importance of human language 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 and language technologies. Currently, worldwide, linguistics and language technologies are taught primarily in post-secondary education. This project raises awareness of the value and significance of linguistics and language technologies among young people under the age of twenty from diverse demographic backgrounds.This project consists of two events. The first is a training workshop for US high school students who are competing in the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL). The training involves honing problem-solving skills on logical puzzles that exercise pattern recognition and analytical reasoning and take hours to solve. It also includes the building blocks of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, and morphosyntax, as well as special topics such as kinship systems, number systems, and systems of poetic meter and rhyme. The second event is a planning workshop for the United States' annual high school competition in linguistics and computational linguistics (NACLO, North American Computational Linguistics Open competition). It focuses on how to meet the needs of diverse high school studentsthroughout the US. The target of the workshop is metrics of diversity, plans for outreach, and plans for the future of NACLO taking diversity into account.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.

语言学是语言的科学。该领域应用的广度使得在全球经济以及美国国家安全中的技术和医学进步以及经济竞争力至关重要。此外，人工智能的最新进展与计算机对人类语言的强大使用有关，可能会影响日常生活的许多方面。鉴于人类语言对该国的多方面重要性，至关重要的是将资源降低到将该领域引入高中生，并招募该国最聪明的思想来追求语言学和语言技术。目前，全球，语言学和语言技术主要是在大专教育中教授的。该项目提高了从潜水员人群背景的二十岁以下年轻人中语言学和语言技术的价值和意义的认识。该项目由两个事件组成。首先是参加参加国际语言学奥林匹克（IOL）的美国高中学生的培训研讨会。该培训涉及在逻辑难题上磨练解决问题的技能，这些难题是锻炼模式识别和分析推理，并花费数小时来解决。它还包括语言学的基础：语音，语音学，形态和形态渠道，以及诸如亲属系统，数字系统以及诗歌仪和押韵系统等特殊主题。第二个活动是美国年度高中语言学和计算语言学竞赛（NACLO，北美计算语言学开放竞赛）的计划研讨会。它重点介绍了如何满足美国多元化高中生的需求。研讨会的目标是多样性的指标，外展计划以及纳克洛的未来计划。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估NSF的法定任务。