This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing, NLPCC 2017, held in Dalian, China, in November 2017. The 47 full papers and 39 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 252 submissions. The papers are organized around the following topics: IR/search/bot; knowledge graph/IE/QA; machine learning; machine translation; NLP applications; NLP fundamentals; social networks; and text mining.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2021, held in Sydney, Australia in February 2022.* The 26 full papers presented together with 35 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections in Part I, including: Healthcare, Education, Web Application and On-device application. * The conference was originally planned for December 2021, but was postponed to 2022.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2021, held in Sydney, Australia in February 2022.* The 26 full papers presented together with 35 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections in Part II named: Pattern mining; Graph mining; Text mining; Multimedia and time series data mining; and Classification, clustering and recommendation. * The conference was originally planned for December 2021, but was postponed to 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2018, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in November 2018. The 8 full papers presented together with 9 short papers and 3 session papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The scope of the conference covers applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and multimedia data.