This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th China National Conference on Computational
Linguistics CCL 2016 and the 4th International Symposium on Natural Language Processing Based
on Naturally Annotated Big Data NLP-NABD 2016 held in Yantai City China in October 2016.
The 29 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and
selected from 85 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: semantics machine
translation multilinguality in NLP knowledge graph and information extraction linguistic
resource annotation and evaluation information retrieval and question answering text
classification and summarization social computing and sentiment analysis and NLP
applications.