ECVLP 2013 - The first Evaluation Campaign on Vietnamese Language Processing

This first VLSP evaluation campaign deals with two different tasks. One concerns the very essential tools for Vietnamese language processing, i.e. word segmentation and POS tagging. The other concerns one of the most important NLP applications, Machine Translation (MT).
Organizers
Institute of Information Technology, VAST, Vietnam
Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
Sponsors
This evaluation campaign would not be possible without the contribution of the following institutions with their human resources for data preparation and evaluation activities:
- Institute of Information Technology, VAST, Vietnam
- Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Vietnam Lexicography Center
We welcome all other sponsors from other institutions and companies interested in Vietnamese language processing area.
Publications
The participants to the evaluation campaign will be asked to present their system in a dedicated paper. All well-formed system papers will be accepted after review and presented as an oral talk or poster in the scientific paper session.
After the evaluation campaign, we expect the collaboration of all the participants to submit a scientific paper on the systems and the evaluation results to an international conference or a journal specialized in language resources and evaluation.