Linguistic Olympiad-problems up on the internets, in 16 languages!
(Re-blogging from the blog of the IOL (International Linguistics Olympiad ), with added gifs ^^! The IOL is a contest for secondary school students in linguistics, read more here .) All the problems from the 12th International Linguistics Olympiad that took place in Beijing this July 2014 are now up on the official IOL-website ! The problem set is multilingual, as it has been since the start in 2003. This year we have 16 different languages: Bulgarian Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Latvian, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian. We are, as always, extremely grateful to and impressed by the Problem Committee and the Jury. The problems are not written wholly in one language, but in a kind of “solverese”. If you want to read more about how that works, read this: Derzhanski, Ivan (2013) Multilingual Editing of Linguistic Problems, In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Teaching NLP and...