This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 17th Chinese
Lexical Semantics Workshop CLSW 2016 held in Singapore Singapore in May 2016. The 70
regular papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 182
submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: lexicon and morphology the
syntax-semantics interface corpus and resource natural language processing case study of
lexical semantics extended study and application.