Organizers
The IOL is an event organized by many hands, all contributing on a volunteer basis to its realization. Professors, teachers, former participants and enthusiasts from different countries gather in different organizing bodies, such as the Board, the International Organizing Committee, the Problem Committee and the Jury. In addition, each year's edition is organized by a Local Organizing Committee (LOC).
Local Organizing Committee
Bruno L'Astorina
IOL, Instituto Vertere
Chair
Natália Guimarães
Instituto Vertere
Caçapava, SP
Vice-Chair, Logistics
Eloisa Pilati
University of Brasilia
Brasília, DF
Academic, Institutional
Janaína Weissheimer
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Natal, RN
Academic
Rodrigo Tiradentes
Portuguese Teacher
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Program
Cynthia Herkenhoff
IOL 2017, Applied Mathematician
Paris, France
User Experience
Artur Corrêa Souza
IOL 2018, Software Developer
Porto Alegre, RS
Technology
If you wish to enter in contact, you can write to [email protected].
Academic Council
The LOC is supported in all academic and scientific matters by the Academic Council, who gives valuable advices and institutional support for the best flow of the event. The Council is composed by:
Eduardo Cardoso Martins | Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) |
Eloisa Pilati | University of Brasília (UnB) |
Heloisa de Almeida Salles | University of Brasília (UnB) |
Janaina Weissheimer | Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) |
Joara Martin Bergsleithner | University of Brasília (UnB) |
Supporting Team
The LOC can only coordinate the IOL effort by counting with the help of several other kind and enthusiastic people – many of them former IOL or ELO (Brazilian Olympiad's last round) participants. Those include:
Charles L'Astorina | Estúdio Vértebra | General Design |
Pedro Leão | IOL 2019 | Website |
Roosmari Pihlak | IOL 2019, 2021 | Social media |
Marina Kawamura | ELO 2020 | Video editing, communication |
Carolina Motta Bastos | IOL 2023 | Communication |
Thiago Augusto Santos | ELO 2023 | Communication |
Senas Araújo | ELO 2023 | Communication |
Maria Luporini | UFRJ | Cultural Program |
Rafael Santiago | UnB | Cerimonial |
Lai Otsuka | IOL 2022 | Exam Logistics |
Fernando César | IOL 2022 | User Experience |
Institutions
In addition, the IOL 2024 is supported by various institutions. The organizational nucleus is drawn from Olimpíada Brasileira de Linguística (OBL), the Brazilian counterpart of the Linguistics Olympiads. As such, we have direct strategic support from Instituto Vertere and academic support from the Brazilian Linguistics Association (ABRALIN).
The IOL 2024 is mainly sponsored by Brazil's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), as well as by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Problem Committee and Jury
The academic nucleus of IOL is the Problem Committee (IOL PC) , a permanent body composed of researchers, teachers and former participants, all experienced solvers, testers and composers of the genre of Self-sufficient linguistics problems. The PC works the whole year in the multilingual composition of the problems, in order to guarantee that all language versions of the problems are functionally equal. You can read more about it here.
During the event, the academic work (distributing the problems, overseeing the exams, marking the papers, presenting solutions, giving awards) is done by an International Jury, composed by members drawn from the PC. The International Jury for IOL 2024 is composed by:
Aleksejs Peguševs
Alexander Piperski
Andrey Nikulin
Boris Iomdin
Dan-Mircea Mirea
Daniel Rucki
Dmitry Gerasimov
Elysia Warner
Hugh Dobbs
Ivan Derzhanski
Jan Petr
Ksenia Gilyarova
Liam McKnight
Maria Rubinstein
Milena Veneva
Przemysław Podleśny
Shinjini Ghosh
Stanislav Gurevich
Taehun Lee
Tung-Le Pan
Yuyang Liu
Volunteers
In addition to the permanent bodies and to the LOC, running the actual IOL involves a lot of hands-on activities, performed by a group of national and international volunteers – working especially in coordinating, escorting and concierge-ing the students, but also preparing activities, distributing materials and keeping the flow and the energy of daily-life at IOL.
The team of volunteers for IOL 2024 was selected in January and February as a diverse team composed by enthusiastic, experienced and linguistics-loving individuals – and as the Local Organizing Team we deeply thank everyone who offered themselves. The final team are the following people:
- Alexandra Jelihovschi – Chișinău
- Carolina Bastos – São José dos Campos
- Dana Ospanova – Astana
- Ece Karagöz – Istanbul
- Esteban Mayorga – Bogotá
- Fernando César – São Paulo
- Isadora Lopes – Vitória
- Justin Cunningham – Kildare
- Leo Paillo – Fortaleza
- Mariana Lins Wolmer – Recife
- Marina Abreu – Brasília
- Michelle Morikawa – Londrina
- Mihail Paskov – Sofia
- Pedro Leão – Campinas
- Roosmari Pihlak – Tallinn
- Samara Dália – Natal
- Senas Araujo – São Paulo
- Tamara Ivanof – Cluj-Napoca
- Thiago Augusto – Aracaju
- Vítor Córdoba – Brasília
Participants
An event is fundamentally made by its participants, selected from the many National Linguistics Olympiads around the globe. Below are the delegations registered for IOL 2024 so far (names of contestants and team leaders will come soon). This page is constantly being updated up to the date of the event.
Australia
Bangladesh
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada Anglophone
China
Colombia
Finland
Germany
Hungary
India
Japan
Kazakhstan
Malaysia
Malta
Nepal
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Republic of Korea
Republic of Moldova
Romania
Switzerland
Taiwan
United States of America
Vietnam