{"id":3700,"date":"2008-06-25T18:52:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T18:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/06\/coming-down-from-the-ozclo-state-round\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:46:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:46:51","slug":"coming-down-from-the-ozclo-state-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/06\/coming-down-from-the-ozclo-state-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming down from the OzCLO State round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the flurry of exam marking and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lingfest.arts.usyd.edu.au\/\">LingFest <\/a>preparation, the top floor of the Transient is still coming down from the ascent of 64 high school  students today. They came from as far away as Camden (Macarthur Anglican), and James Ruse, to as close as Fort Street and St Marys in Sydney proper.  Year 9, 10 and 11 students bounded up our stairs, and along our (thankfully refurbished) corridors, to the State Round of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozclo.org.au\/\">OzCLO<\/a>, the First Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad.<br \/>\nFueled by tim-tams and orange juice, teams of three worked away at problems in Luiseno, Chinantec,  Japanese compounds, the horror [1]  of getting computers to parse English morphology, and a wonderful problem on Anglicised Irish place-names &#8211; how do you get <em>Clashgortmore<\/em> from the forms in <em>An Chlais Bh\u00e1n<\/em> (The White Pit), <em>Bun an Ghoirt Bh\u00e1in<\/em> (Base of the White Field), <em>An Currach M\u00f3r<\/em> (The Big Marsh) &#8211; and what does it mean?<br \/>\nThey seemed excited, charming, enthusiastic problem-solvers, and, with luck they&#8217;ll be the next generation of linguists (doctor, lawyer, Indian chief?)<br \/>\nThe general consensus seems to be that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>yes, we must have it next year,\n<li>yes if we advertise in further in advance we will get more students (64 was FAR more than we&#8217;d expected),\n<li>and<br \/>\nYES, we must find sponsors [2] to send the national winners overseas to the International Computational and Linguistic Olympiads.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Suggestions anyone?<br \/>\nAnd now, to mark the results&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>Watch this space for the three winners who will go on to the National round on 6th August.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n[1] and the horror of marking &#8211; one of our Melbourne collaborators spent today whipping off &#8220;a quick and dirty Perl script to evaluate the effectiveness of the regular expressions that the students come up with&#8221; in answer to the problem.<br \/>\n[2] Above and beyond our current kind &#038; generous sponsors, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcsnet.edu.au\/\">HCSNet<\/a>, the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney, Macquarie University,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csiro.au\/\">CSIRO<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alta.asn.au\/\">Australasian Language Technology Association<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.als.asn.au\/\">Australian Linguistics Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the flurry of exam marking and LingFest preparation, the top floor of the Transient is still coming down from the ascent of 64 high school students today. They came from as far away as Camden (Macarthur Anglican), and James Ruse, to as close as Fort Street and St Marys in Sydney proper. Year 9, &#8230; <a title=\"Coming down from the OzCLO State round\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/06\/coming-down-from-the-ozclo-state-round\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Coming down from the OzCLO State round\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4283,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions\/4283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}