The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO) is a contest for high school students. It challenges them to develop their own strategies for solving problems in fascinating real languages. The program is designed for high school students from year 9 to year 12. Any secondary school student who enjoys the sample problems is a potential contestant. If you have missed out on participating in the 2011 competition you can use these sample problems to start preparing for 2012!  

Competition Format

The First round is a two hour competition during which the students work in teams of (typically) four on a range of analytical problems. The top three teams of the First Round then go on to the National Round.  The winners of the National Round then get selected to represent Australia at the International Linguistics Olympiad.   

Registration

Registration is free. For the 2012 competition, registration is handled by the Registration Portal. The portal also provides additional information on a per-region basis.

Training Sessions

Training sessions for students are held at each location. We will explain the details of the competition, the fields of linguistics, computational linguistics, and language technologies, provide sample problems, and give tips for solving them. If you would like to find out more about training sessions in each state, please email the local organisers.