The Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language (AINL) conference series has been organised since 2012 with focus on Natural ... Language Processing (NLP) and related fields. The conference has developed a set of distinctive features: • Strong practical focus: Industrial talks and product demonstrations is an essential part of the conference program • Interactive component: The conference programs includes a number of workshops and panel discussions, as well as poster session and other interactive forms • Student's support: An encouraging attitude towards students and researchers on the early stage of career The 9th conference on AINL 2020 invites everyone interested in intellectual technologies, both from academic institutes and innovative companies. The conference aimed to bring together experts in the areas of text mining, speech technologies, dialogue systems, information retrieval, machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics; to create a platform for sharing experience, extending contacts and searching for possible collaboration. read more