Program of the 8th International Workshop on
Vietnamese Language and Speech Processing
Venue: Virtual Event (TBA)
Saturday, December 18, 2021
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Reception |
| 8:30 - 8:45 | Opening. Sponsorship certificate presentation |
| 8:45 - 9:00 | Speech from UIT, VAIP |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Speech processing summary reports - Award presentation (ASR, SV, and TTS) |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Break |
| 10:15 - 10:35 | Conformer with Gradient Mask and Stochastic Weight Averaging for Vietnamese Automatic Speech Recognition Son Dang Dinh, Linh Đăng Lê, Vương Đặng Xuân, Tiến Dương Quang and Thắng Tạ Bảo |
| 10:35 - 10:55 | The Smartcall - ITS team's Systems for VLSP2021 Speaker Verification Tasks Van Hung Dinh, Van Tuan Mai, Ba Quyen Dam and Quoc Bao Nguyen |
| 10:55 - 11:15 | Development of Vietnamese Text-To-Speech for VLSP 2021 TTS Challenge Lê Minh Nguyễn, Vũ Quốc Việt, Đỗ Quốc An and Võ Thúc Khánh Huyền |
| 11:15 - 12:30 | Poster Session |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 - 14:50 | Text processing summary reports - Award presentation (NER, MRC, NLI, vieCap) |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | A Span-Based Model for Named Entity Recognition Task at VLSP 2021 with Co-teaching+ Training Strategy Phu-Thinh Pham, Duy Vu-Tran and Anh-Duc Do-Tran |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | VC-Tus at VLSP2021-MRC Shared Task: Improving Retrospective Reader for Vietnamese Machine Reading Comprehension Nam Le Hai, Duc Nguyen Sy, Quan Chu Quoc and Vi Ngo Van |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Poster show - Q&A |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | UIT@LKT at VLSP2021 Shared Task: A Fine-tuning System based on Pre-trained Language Model with Data Augmentation Ngô Đình Luân, Ngô Lê Hiếu Kiên and Đặng Văn Thìn |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | vieCap4H Challenge 2021: Vietnamese Image Captioning for Healthcare Domains using Swin Transformer and Attention-based LSTM Thanh Tin Nguyen, Long H. Nguyen, Nhat Truong Pham, Liu Tai Nguyen, Van Huong Do, Hai Nguyen and Ngoc Duy Nguyen |
| 16:40 - 17:30 | Panel Discussion and Closing |
