Checklist ROAI 2026 National Stage, Grades 9–10 · Task 1
Future Text Understanding
Count identically spelled English/Romanian words and match each English word to its Romanian translation from a shuffled list.
The task
A student stranded in 2126 has English and Romanian fastText (word2vec) models that cannot translate as they are, and a file of English–Romanian parallel sentences (train_data.csv) that may be used to adapt them.
test_data.csv lists English words in the 'Word' column and Romanian words in the 'Similar' column, with no word placed next to its translation. Subtask 1 asks how many words appear with identical spelling in both columns; subtask 2 asks for the best Romanian match of every English word.
Abridged by SOTA from the official materials. The official statement has the exact rules, and it wins wherever this summary differs.
At a glance
- You get
train_data.csv(sentences translated from English to Romanian) andtest_data.csv(Word and Similar columns); English and Romanian fastText models are referred to in the statement.- You submit
- CSV with subtaskID, datapointID (0 for subtask 1, the word ID for subtask 2) and answer (a number for subtask 1, a Romanian word for subtask 2).
- Scoring
- Subtask 1 (10 points): exact number. Subtask 2 (90 points): accuracy; 0 points below 0.1, linear from 10 to 90 between 0.1 and 0.78, 90 points above 0.78.
- Rules
- On-site at Genesis College, Bucharest, through the Nitro Contestant Cloud
- Only the packages listed in the round rules may be used
- Only submissions selected by the contestant count towards the final ranking
- Format
- ROAI 2026 national stage, grades 9–10 section, 7 April 2026 (12:15–16:30 UTC on the judge).