This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the
Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics PACLING 2017 held in Yangon Myanmar in
August 2017. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50
submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on semantics and semantic analysis
statistical machine translation corpora and corpus-based language processing syntax and
syntactic analysis document classification information extraction and text mining text
summarization text and message understanding automatic speech recognition spoken language
and dialogue speech pathology speech analysis.
