NACLO (North American Computational Linguistics Open competition) 2025 @ CUNY

Registration for NACLO, Open Round (January 23) is now open

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NACLO Linguistics Circle at CUNY:

1. November 4, 5:45pm-7:00pm, CUNY Graduate Center, room 7406. Discussion topic: What Makes a Language Difficult? Understanding Language Complexity through NACLO problems?
2. December 2, 5:45pm-7:00pm, zoom. Discussion topic: Time, Location, and Numbers through NACLO problems.
3. January 6, 5:45pm-7:00pm. Discussion Topic: Language Families through NACLO problems
4. January 20, 5:45pm-7:00pm. Discussion Topic: NACLO Problem Solving Strategies, different problem types, etc.

What is NACLO?

• NACLO is a contest in which high-school students solve linguistic problems.
  • NACLO is geared towards high-school students interested in solving puzzles, breaking codes, learning foreign languages, natural language processing, and language technologies.
• In solving NACLO problems, students learn about the diversity and consistency of language, while exercising logic skills.
• No prior knowledge of linguistics or second languages is necessary.
• No entrance fee to join the competition.
• More information on NACLO, including the problems and solutions from previous years can be found here: https://naclo.org/.
• NACLO Student Participant Handbook.

When and where?

• Open round competition:
  • Thursday, January 23, 2024, 10am – 1pm (EST)
  • CUNY runs two sites where high school students can write the NACLO test:
    • Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016;
    • Queens College.

Second round (invitation): March 

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