Conference: Training the US Computational Linguistics Team

语言学是研究语言的科学。该领域应用的广度使其对全球经济中的技术和医疗进步、经济竞争力以及美国国家安全至关重要。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，这可能会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国内最聪明的人从事语言学和语言技术方面的职业是至关重要的。目前，在世界范围内，语言学和语言技术主要在高等教育中教授。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。这个项目由两个事件组成。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讲习班。训练包括磨练解决逻辑谜题的能力，这些谜题需要锻炼模式识别和分析推理能力，需要数小时才能解决。它还包括语言学的组成部分：语音学、音韵学、形态学和形态句法，以及特殊的主题，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一年一度的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）举办的规划研讨会。它的重点是如何满足美国各地不同高中学生的需求。讲习班的目标是多样性指标、外联计划以及考虑到多样性的NACLO未来计划。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。

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.