2012 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO)

Registration is now open for the 2012 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO).  This is a contest that appeals to many students who enjoy mathematical problem solving competitions.  As in past years, Dr. Vincent Ng will offer the contest at UT Dallas and will also provide a prep session before the contest. Knowledge of specific [...]

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Watson and Math Circle

Many of us have been following the extraordinary events of last week as the IBM computer, Watson, defeated the two greatest human Jeopardy champions in three matches.  This milestone in artificial intelligence will go down in history along with Deep Blue’s defeat of Garry Kasparov in chess over a decade ago. It took a decade [...]

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2011 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad

Many of our circle members enjoy participating in the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad, NACLO.   Like the USAMO, this set of contests is used to select the team that will represent the US in the International Linguistics Olympiad, ILO.  This is not a test of how many languages you know, but rather your ability [...]

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NACLO 2010

Our good friend and 2009 lecturer, Dr. Vincent Ng, will once again host the NACLO competition at UTD this year.  Computational Linguistics is a fascinating field which shares a lot in commons with mathematical problem solving.  In fact most of the students who make the national team are also highly accomplished math problem solvers.  No [...]

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Statistical Natural Language Processing – Recap

Dr. Ng gave a terrific talk on the field of natural language processing which combines many disciplines to address pressing problems.  He also introduced many of our students to the problems they will encounter on the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad being held at UTD. To help participants prepare for NACLO, Dr. Ng will host [...]

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January 17, 2009: Statistical Natural Language Processing

Please come join us for the first Metroplex Math Circle of 2009.  On January 17 we will have Dr. Vincent Ng from UT Dallas talk to us about an exciting new field of applied mathematics as well as a new Olympiad with national and international competitions. Statistical Natural Language Processing and the North American Computational [...]

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Computational Linguistics

Discrete mathematics and problem solving skills can lead to a very wide variety of careers.  With the upcoming NACLO competition and a lecture on Natural Language Processing, we will profile the emerging field of Computational Linguistics.  The following description is offered by Dr. Hans Uszkoreit: Computational linguistics (CL) is a discipline between linguistics and computer [...]

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