On le2: Its Nature and Syntactic Status -- A Study on the Counter-expectation and Semantic Construal Strategy of Implicit Negative Adverbs -- Study of Sentence Patterns of "You" Sentence Based on Semantic Dependence Graph Bank -- On the quantification of events  in doua construction -- Approximate Constructions Using duo 'more' in Chinese -- A Comparative Study on the Definition of Adverbs -- Temporal Behavior of Temporal Modifiers and Its Implications:  The Case of běnlái and yuánlái in Mandarin Chinese -- Distributive Quantifier měi in Mandarin Chinese -- On the semantic functions and denotations of jīngcháng and chángcháng -- On the Grammaticalization of Chinese Prefix Di -- The Degree Usage of Cai and Relevant Issues -- A study on the third interpretation of 'V+ Duration Phrase' in Chinese from the perspective of qualia structure -- Semantic Classification and Category Expansion  of "Qing  X" in Modern Chinese -- Three Registers behind two Characters: an Analysis of the Words' Formation andtheir Registers -- The Meaning of Polysemous Adjective "Hao(Good)" -- The (Dis) appearance of Affected Role "lìng/shǐ..." in the Causative Adjective-Noun Composition -- The Study of Content Restriction of Mandarin you Measure Construction -- Metaphors in Chinese Accompanying Gesture Modality  and Cognition -- Competition and Differentiation of a Pair of Morpheme-inverted Words in Mandarin Chinese: Dòuzhēng and Zhēngdòu -- The Polylexicalization and Grammaticalization of Zhiyu -- Research on the Recognition of Chinese Autonomous Verbs Based on Semantic Selection Restriction and Natural Annotation Information -- Disambiguating Polysemous Word Senses Based on Semantic Types and Syntactic Collocations: A Case Study of "Zhongguo+N" -- Extracting Opinion Targets and Opinion Words with CenterNP and syntactic-semantic features -- Acquiring Selectional Preferences for Knowledge Base Construction -- Identifying Chinese Event Factuality with Convolutional Neural Networks -- Recognizing Textual Entailment Using Inference Phenomenon -- Deriving Probabilistic Semantic Frames from HowNet -- Semantic Relations Mining in Social Tags Based on a Modern Chinese Semantic Dictionary -- The Study of Indian Domain Ontology Building Based on the Framework of HNC -- Mandarin Relata: A Dataset of Word Relations and Their Semantic Types -- Quantitative Analysis of Synergetic Properties in Chinese Nouns -- Construction of an Online Lexicon of Chinese Loan Words and Phrases Translated from English -- Study on the Annotation Framework of Chinese Logic Complement Semantics -- Building A Parallel Corpus with Bilingual Discourse Alignment -- NTU-EA: A Graphic Program for Error Annotation -- A Comparable Corpus-based Genre Analysis of Research Article Introductions -- Figurative Language in Emotion Expressions -- From Linguistic Synaesthesia to Embodiment: Asymmetrical Representations of Taste and Smell in Mandarin Chinese -- A Study on Chinese Vocabulary Learning Strategies of Second Language Learners -- A Study on the Distribution Differences of Sentence Group Coherence in Chinese Texts of Different Genres -- The Construction and Application of The Legal Corpus -- Research on the Lexicography Based on the Corpus of International Chinese Teaching Materials -- Research on Dynamic Words and Their Automatic Recognition in Chinese Information Processing -- Matching Pattern Acquisition Approach for Ancient Chinese Treebank Construction -- Annotation Guidelines of Semantic Roles for Semantic Dependency Graph Bank -- Chinese Conjunctions in Second Language Learners' Written Texts -- Study on Lexical Gap Phenomenon at the Primary Stage of Vocabulary Teaching in TCFL -- Study on Chinglish in Web Text for Natural Language Processing -- Construction of a Database of Parallel Phrases in Chinese and Arabic -- A Study on the Discourse Connectives in Analects of the Sixth Chan Patriarch Huineng -- Transitivity Variations in Mandarin  VO Compounds --- A Comparable Corpus-based  Statistical Approach -- Entrenchment and Creativity inChinese Quadrasyllabic Idiomatic Expressions -- A Study on Chinese Synonyms: From the Perspective of Collocations.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 18th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2017, held in Leshan, China, in May 2017. The 48 full papers and 5 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: lexical semantics; applications of natural language processing; lexical resources; and corpus linguistics.