This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th China National Conference on Computational
Linguistics CCL 2019 held in Kunming China in October 2019. The 56 full papers presented in
this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. They were organized in
topical sections named: linguistics and cognitive science fundamental theory and methods of
computational linguistics information retrieval and question answering text classification
and summarization knowledge graph and information extraction machine translation and
multilingual information processing minority language processing language resource and
evaluation social computing and sentiment analysis NLP applications.