Arabic - 2024 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

This language’s very large tagsets and orthographic ambiguity pose significant problems when using conventional natural language processing algorithms on this language. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this language, whose script is the most common right-to-left script used in the world. This language’s Darija dialect is spoken in Morocco, and its Egyptian dialect is this language’s most widespread.

ANSWER: Arabic [or al-‘arabiyya]

[10h] Arabic is also difficult to learn for humans. One reason is the existence of the “broken” type of this property that usually involves changing vowels within the word and is contrasted with its “sound” type.

ANSWER: plural [accept jamʿ taksīr or jamʿ sālim]

[10m] The fuṣḥa (“FOOS-hah”) variety of Arabic is this type of language that is often artificially imposed by governmental institutions. Fuṣḥa, however, is assigned this role because it is most similar to the language of the Qur’an.

ANSWER: standard language [or standardized language; accept standard Arabic or standardized Arabic; accept Modern Standard Arabic or MSA; accept classical Arabic or CA; prompt on official language; reject “national language”]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	12.22	100%	22%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	12.50	100%	13%	13%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	11	10.00	91%	9%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	11.11	100%	11%	0%

Data


Claremont B	UCLA D	10	0	0	10
UCLA A	Claremont A	10	0	0	10
UCSD	UCLA B	10	0	0	10
UCLA C	USC	10	0	10	20
Cornell D	Binghamton A	10	0	0	10
Cornell B	Binghamton B	10	0	0	10
Cornell F	Binghamton C	10	0	10	20
Cornell C	RIT B	10	0	0	10
Cornell E	U of Rochester A	10	0	0	10
Cornell G	Cornell A	10	0	10	20
ESF	RIT C	10	0	10	20
Syracuse	RIT A	10	0	0	10
Penn State	U of Rochester B	10	0	0	10
UCLA E	Claremont C	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	WashU A	10	0	0	10
Chicago B	Notre Dame C	10	0	0	10
Illinois D	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10
WashU B	Indiana	10	0	0	10
Purdue A	Iowa A	10	0	0	10
Northwestern B	Illinois C	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame A	Northwestern A	10	0	10	20
Purdue B	Iowa B	10	0	10	20
Purdue C	SIUE	10	0	0	10
Fordham A	Columbia A	10	0	0	10
Penn B	Bard A	10	0	0	10
NYU A	Lehigh B	10	0	0	10
Penn A	NYU B	10	0	10	20
Maryland B	Princeton A	10	0	0	10
Columbia J	Rutgers A	10	0	0	10
Rutgers B	Lehigh A	10	0	0	10
Columbia B	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
CWRU A	Jefferson County Scholars	10	0	10	20
CWRU B	Ohio State C	10	0	0	10
Michigan D	CWRU C	10	0	0	10
Michigan State B	Miami C	10	0	0	10
Michigan B	Ohio State A	10	0	0	10
Michigan C	Ohio State B	10	0	10	20
West Virginia A	Miami B	10	0	0	10
West Virginia B	Michigan A	10	0	0	10
UBC A	UW Wrath	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Tennessee A	10	0	0	10
South Carolina A	Auburn A	10	0	10	20
Southern	Auburn B	10	0	0	10
Auburn C	Mississippi State A	10	0	0	10
Clemson B	Belmont	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech B	Clemson A	10	0	0	10
Georgia A	Furman	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Emory A	10	0	0	10
Tennessee B	Emory Oxford	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech D	10	0	0	10
South Carolina B	Vanderbilt B	10	0	0	10
Appalachian State B	Duke A	10	0	10	20
UNC D	Duke B	10	0	0	10
James Madison A	Appalachian State A	10	0	0	10
William & Mary	Liberty A	10	0	0	10
Liberty C	UNC B	10	0	0	10
Liberty B	NC State	10	0	0	10
Tusculum	Virginia	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	VCU	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech B	James Madison B	10	0	0	10