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For important dates, see below.

The NACLO (North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad) is a competition for middle and high schoool students (grades 6 to 12) which presents problems involving language and logic. All problems are written and no prior background in linguistics or computer science is necessary.

Try out some fun practice problems here! article about NACLO 2010!

This is the fourth year for NACLO to be hosted at the Faculty of Computer Science in Dalhousie.

Important Dates

- Jan. 28, 2012 : NACLO Practice & Information Session
-- The practice session is CANCELLED.

- Feb. 2, 2012 : NACLO Open Round
-- Location: Dalhousie University, Goldberg Computer Science Building, Jacob Slonim Conference Room 430
-- Arrival & On-site Registration: 10:30-10:50am
-- Briefing: 10:50-11:00am
-- Contest Time: 11:00am-2:00pm
-- Pizza: 2:00pm
-- Prizes for top three contestants (iPod touch for top local contestant)

- Mar 13, 2012 : NACLO Invitational Round
-- Location: Dalhousie University, Goldberg Computer Science Building, Room to be announced
-- Time to be announced
-- Participants are selected based on Open Round rankings

- Note: Please make sure that you are subscribed to the email list "Dalhousie NACLO" naclo@lists.dnlp.ca to be notified of any changes to the information below. You can subscribe by sending an email to vlado@cs.dal.ca.