This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2005, held in Alicante, Spain in June 2005.

The 29 revised full papers and 18 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. Among the topics addressed are SQL queries, text representation, information retrieval, text categorization, textual mining, information extraction, semantic relations, document analysis, knowledge-based information extraction, entity recognition, textual databases, machine translation, Web content filtering, text mining, lexical relations, semantic annotation, multilingual database quering, question answering, and knowledge extraction.