Learning from OzCLO, the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad

Dominique Estival, John Henderson, Mary Laughren, Diego Mollá, Cathy Bow, Rachel Nordlinger, Verna Rieschild, Andrea C. Schalley, Alexander W. Stanley, Colette Mrowa-Hopkins

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO) started in 2008 in only two locations and has since grown to a nationwide competition with almost 1500 high school students participating in 2013. An Australian team has participated in the International Linguistics Olympiad (ILO) every year since 2009. This paper describes how the competition is run (with a regional First Round and a final National Round) and the organisation of the competition (a National Steering Committee and Local Organising Committees for each region) and discusses the particular challenges faced by Australia (timing of the competition and distance between the major population centres). One major factor in the growth and success of OzCLO has been the introduction of the online competition, allowing participation of students from rural and remote country areas. The organisation relies on the good-will and volunteer work of university and school staff but the strong interest among students and teachers shows that OzCLO is responding to a demand for linguistic challenges.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of 4th Workshop on Teaching Natural Language processing, 4-9 August 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria
    PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
    Pages35-41
    Number of pages7
    ISBN (Print)9781937284695
    Publication statusPublished - 2013
    EventWorkshop on Teaching Natural Language processing -
    Duration: 4 Aug 2013 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceWorkshop on Teaching Natural Language processing
    Period4/08/13 → …

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