Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language

​This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language, AINL 2020, held in Helsinki, Finland, in October 2020. The 11 revised full papers and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. Additionally, the volume presents 1 shared task paper. The volume presents recent research in areas of of text mining, speech technologies, dialogue systems, information retrieval, machine learning, articial intelligence, and robotics.