Introducing Computational Linguistics and NLP to High School Students

Rositsa Dekova, Adelina Radeva


Abstract
The paper addresses a possible way of introducing core concepts of Computational Linguistics through problems given at the linguistic contests organized for high school students in Bulgaria and abroad. Following a brief presentation of the foundation and the underlying objective of these contests, we outline some of the types of problems as reflecting the different levels of language processing and the diversity of approaches and tasks to be solved. By presenting the variety of problems given so far through the years, we would like to attract the attention of the academic community to this captivating method through which high school students might be acquainted with the challenges and the main goals of Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
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2018.clib-1.20
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Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2018)
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May
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2018
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Sofia, Bulgaria
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CLIB
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Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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162–168
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Rositsa Dekova and Adelina Radeva. 2018. Introducing Computational Linguistics and NLP to High School Students. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2018), pages 162–168, Sofia, Bulgaria. Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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