Preface
     This volume contains the papers of evaluation tasks presented at the China Conference on
Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing (CCKS 2018).
     CCKS 2018 is the premier forum on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Technologies for Chinese
researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government. It covers wider fields including
the Knowledge Graph, the Semantic Web, Linked Data, NLP, knowledge representation, graph databases
etc. CCKS is organized by the Technical Committee on Language and Knowledge Computing of CIPS
(Chinese Information Processing Society of China).
     CCKS 2018 has hosted four evaluation tasks: (1) Clinical Named Entity Recognition. Given a set
of digital medical records in plain text, this task is to recognize entity mentions in medical domain, and
classify them into pre-defined categories, such as disease, symptom, etc. (2) Command Understanding
over the music domain. Given a set of command in natural language, it is required to identify whether
they ask for music, and find the corresponding arguments. (3) Customer Service Question Matching.
Given a set of question pairs in natural language, it is required to identify whether they have equivalent
semantic. (4) Chinese Open-domain Question Answering. Given a set of questions in natural language,
it is required to answer them according to a given knowledge base.
     The four evaluation tasks have involved many participants coming from universities, companies
and research institutes. They have involved 288 participants, and 247 of them submitted their final results.
We invited all the participants to submit a research paper describing their methods and we received 22
submissions. Each of the submissions went through a thorough peer review process, and 15 papers were
accepted for the presentation at the CCKS2018 evaluation session and poster session, which are included
within these proceedings.
     Finally, we would like to thank all the authors of submitted papers and the Program Committee
members for their commitment.


Octomber 2018                                                                                    Lei Zou
                                                                                            Haofen Wang


Program Comittee
  - Jiangtao Zhang, Thsinghua University
  - Buzhou Tang, Harbin Institute of Technology
  - Zengtao jiao, Medical Duyun (Beijing) Technology
  - Kang Liu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  - Shangmin Guo, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  - Shengping Liu, Beijing Yunzhisheng Information Technology
  - Yong Zhang, Beijing Yunzhisheng Information Technology
  - Qingcai Chen, Harbin Institute of Technology
  - Jing Chen, Harbin Institute of Technology
  - Haijun Yang, WeBank Co., Ltd
  - Hua Jiang, WeBank Co., Ltd
  - Lei Zou, Peking University
  - Sen Hu, Peking University