NACLO @ LASA

North American Computational Linguistics Open

2023 NACLO Open Round

Date (open round): Thursday January 26, 2023
Register: NACLO website (select LASA High School – listed under High School Sites – as your testing location). Please register by end of day Tuesday January 24th.
Time: Arrive by 8:45 a.m. for registration and seating. The test runs from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. For LASA students this is an excused absence.
Place: LASA High School, 1012 Arthur Stiles Rd, Austin, Texas 78721, small gym entrance of school
Parking: You can park on the street anywhere shown here.
Site coordinator: Rainer Mueller, LASA Computer Science Teacher ([email protected])
Site id: 402
What to bring: a couple of black pens (contest is free)
Look at:  student handbook

The North American Computational Linguistics Open (NACLO) competition is a contest for U.S./Canadian high school and middle school students in which contestants compete by solving compelling and creative puzzles in linguistics and computational linguistics. Winners of NACLO are eligible to compete in the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL), one of twelve international high school science Olympiads. No prior knowledge of linguistics or second languages is necessary.

Practice Problems (with Solutions)

In the Open Round of the competition on January 26, 2017, 1509 students from across the U.S. and Canada competed at more than 200 sites. The top 10% go on to compete in the Invitational Round. Finally the top finishers in the Invitational Round compete in the International Linguistic Olympiad.  LASA student Evan Hochstein was selected as an alternate for the US team in 2017 –  press release.