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Radev coaches linguists to olympiad victories
(Aug 2008) Assistant Professor Dragomir Radev helped coach a team of U.S. high school students at the sixth International Linguistics Olympiad in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria. The event is one of a dozen international science olympiads for high school students.
The two U.S. teams were chosen from among almost 800 participants in the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad. The U.S. teams competed against 15 other teams from Russia, Germany, Sweden, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, South Korea, Poland, and Slovenia.
The problems on the finals included the following languages: Micmac (a native American language spoken in Canada), Old Norse, Drehu and Cemuhi (from New Caledonia), Copainala Zoque (from southern Mexico), and Inuktikut. They also had to solve a team problem dealing with a historical view of different Chinese dialects.
The U.S. team members individually won one gold medal out of three, two silver medals out of seven, and three bronze medals out of 10. They also captured a gold and a silver in the team contest, plus a first-place award for collectively scoring the most points in the individual contests.
The U.S. teams were led by Radev, head coach; Lori Levin, cochair of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad and associate coach; Amy Troyani, Carnegie Mellon University; and Adam Hesterberg, assistant coach, who was last year's individual winner.
The teams were sponsored by Google, the National Science Foundation, the North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Michigan, and other individual and corporate donors.
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