Goals, Challenges and Findings of the VLSP 2020 English-Vietnamese News Translation Shared Task

This paper reports the VLSP 2020 EnglishVietnamese News Translation shared task, which is one of the six shared tasks organized at the seventh annual workshop on Vietnamese Language and Speech Processing (VLSP 2020). In this task, we provided parallel and monolingual data for training machine translation systems translating English texts into Vietnamese, with the focus of news domain. There were 6 teams participating into the tasks, with 13 submissions in total. We performed both automatic and human evaluations on the submissions and presented the results and our findings at the conference. We hope this would boost the research of Vietnamese machine translation community and start maintaining annual machine translation tasks at VLSP conferences.