The UK Linguistics Olympiad is a competition for students who are still at secondary school, in which they have to solve linguistic data problems. Similar competitions happen in a number of other countries, though it’s only recently that they’ve taken place in English-speaking countries.
The UK Olympiad is part of a consortium of English Language Computational Linguistics Olympiads which developed out of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (for USA and Canada) in 2009, with two other anglophone countries taking part: Australia and Ireland. The consortium shares test materials so its member countries coordinate their test times.
The UK Olympiad also enters a team in the International Linguistics Olympiad . International olympiads for school students exist in a number of other subjects, especially in mathematics and the natural sciences; but they also include olympiads in philosophy and geography.
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