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    This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 5th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2016, and the 24th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, ICCPOL 2016, held in Kunming, China, in December 2016.The 48 revised full papers presented together with 41 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 216 ... Read more

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