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Radev honored by Linguistic Society of America

January 12, 2011

Drago Radev (second from right) accepts the Linguistic Society of America award with team members of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad.

SI Professor Dragomir Radev was honored along with his fellow coaches of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) at the Linguistic Society of America’s annual meeting in Pittsburgh on Jan. 8. They were presented with the Linguistics, Language and the Public Award, which is given for a body of work that has had a demonstrable impact on the public awareness of language and/or linguistics.

Past recipients of this award include writers Steven Pinker (1997) and Deborah Tannen (2005), and Language Log, a collaborative science blog written by a team of a dozen prominent linguists (2009).

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Radev teams bring home gold, silver, bronze

August 3, 2010

Dragomir Radev, front and center, surrounded by his co-coaches and IOL teams.

Professor Dragomir Radev has once again coached his U.S. teams to victory in the 8th annual International Olympiad in Linguistics, a competition for secondary school students. Held this year in Stockholm, Sweden, the event drew 26 teams from 18 countries, including two teams from the U.S., USA Red and USA Blue.

The U.S. teams won several prizes, including–in the individual competition–one gold medal, three silver medals, two bronze medals and two honorable mentions. USA Blue took home the cup awarded to the team with the highest average score in the individual competition. USA Red took third place. Three team members also received Best Solution awards for their elegant explanations of individual problems.

The problems at this year’s IOL were in Mongolian, Budukh, Drehu, Romansch, Blissymbolics, and genetic sequence analysis. See examples of typical problems these young linguists are asked to solve.

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Radev’s teams take Olympiad honors (again)

August 6, 2009

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Associate Professor Dragomir Radev with winning
team members from the Olympiad

Associate Professor Dragomir Radev of the School of Information has a knack for coaching high school students into world beaters when it comes to linguistics.

Radev coached high school students from across the U.S. to individual and team honors last week at the seventh annual International Olympiad in Linguistics in Wroclaw, Poland. The results reflect U.S. competence in computational linguistics, an emerging field that has applications in computer science, language processing, code breaking, and other advanced arenas.

The U.S. fielded two teams at the Olympiad, which featured competitors from 17 countries, including Australia, Germany, India, South Korea, and Russia.

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