 The Problem Committee was chaired by Ivan Derzhanski.The five problems at the individual contest were in Dyirbal (Pama-Nyungan) syntax, Umbu-Ungu (Trans-New Guinea) numbers, Basque (Isolate) pronouns, Teop (Austronesian) syntax, and Rotuman (Austronesian) semantics.The team problem involved recognizing country names in Lao language (Tai-Kadai).