This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th China National Conference on Computational
Linguistics CCL 2017 and the 5th International Symposium on Natural Language Processing Based
on Naturally Annotated Big Data NLP-NABD 2017 held in Nanjing China in October 2017. The 39
full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 272 submissions.
They were organized in topical sections named: Fundamental theory and methods of computational
linguistics Machine translation and multilingual information processing Knowledge graph and
information extraction Language resource and evaluation Information retrieval and question
answering Text classification and summarization Social computing and sentiment analysis NLP
applications Minority language information processing.
