This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on
Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems NLDB 2017 held in Liège Belgium in
June 2017. The 22 full papers 19 short papers and 16 poster papers presented were carefully
reviewed and selected from 125 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical
sections: feature engineering information extraction information extraction from
resource-scarce languages natural language processing applications neural language models and
applications opinion mining and sentiment analysis question answering systems and
applications semantics-based models and applications and text summarization.
