The 8th International Workshop on Vietnamese Language and Speech Processing (VLSP 2021) was held on December 18, 2021, hosted by the University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM. The workshop is organised annually by the Association for Vietnamese Speech and Language Processing (VLSP), a member of the Vietnam Association for Information Processing (VAIP).
VLSP 2021 featured 7 shared tasks evaluating Vietnamese text and speech processing tools, including speaker verification, speech recognition, and natural language processing. The workshop included scientific presentations, a panel discussion on developing the VLSP community, product demonstrations, and evaluation competitions. Datasets built for the workshop are shared with the entire community for research and application development, and the best experimental results serve as a reference for research groups selecting solutions for real-world problems.
Since 2020, the VLSP Club has been formally established as a chapter of the Vietnam Informatics Association, continuing the series of international VLSP workshops initiated in 2012 under the leadership of VLSP research groups at universities and institutes across Vietnam.
INT2 supported VLSP 2021 through engineering expertise and computing resources for the workshop and its evaluation activities.
The workshop was sponsored by the Vingroup Innovation Foundation (VinIF) and supported by a consortium of academic and industry partners including VinBigData, AIMESOFT, VBee, VTCC, VCCorp, IOIT, VNU-UET, VNU-HUS, USTH, TLU, UIT, JAIST, INT2, and InfoRe.