Conference: Training the US Computational Linguistics Team

语言学是研究语言的科学。该领域的广泛应用使其对技术和医学进步以及全球经济中的经济竞争力以及美国国家安全至关重要。此外，计算机智能的最新进展涉及计算机对人类语言的强大使用，可能影响日常生活的许多方面。鉴于人类语言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该国最聪明的人才从事语言学和语言技术的职业至关重要。目前，在世界范围内，语言学和语言技术主要在中学后教育中教授。该项目旨在提高来自不同人口背景的20岁以下年轻人对语言学和语言技术的价值和意义的认识。第一个是为参加国际语言学奥林匹克竞赛（IOL）的美国高中生举办的培训班。培训内容包括磨练解决逻辑难题的能力，这些难题需要练习模式识别和分析推理，并需要数小时才能解决。它还包括语言学的基石：语音学，音系学，形态学和形态句法，以及特殊主题，如亲属系统，数字系统和诗歌韵律系统。第二项活动是为美国年度高中语言学和计算语言学竞赛（NACLO，北美计算语言学公开赛）举办规划研讨会。 它的重点是如何满足不同的高中学生在美国各地的需求。该研讨会的目标是多样性的指标，推广计划，并考虑到多样性的NACLO的未来计划。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。

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.