Preface The Ninth Global Wordnet Conference was held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from 9-12th January 2018. The program combined the main conference with a special day on wordnets and word-embeddings and finished with a half day workshop on technology enhanced learning (TEL). There were 4 invited talks, 41 full papers, 15 posters and 4 invited talks on TEL. Including the papers on embeddings, there were 15 rejections: the acceptance rate for full papers was 58% a sign of the

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... nsistently high quality of papers submitted to the conference. Copyrights for the papers reside with the original authors. The invited papers were One Million Sense-Tagged Instances for Word Sense Disambiguation and Induction by Ng Hwee Tou (National University of Singapore), How are you two related? Corpus-based Learning of Lexical Semantic Relations by Vered Shwartz (Bar-Ilan University), Inducing Interpretable Word Senses for WSD and Enrichment of Lexical Resources by Alexander Panchenko (University of Hamburg) and Using a Grammar Implementation to Teach Writing Skills by Dan Flickinger (Stanford). As well as many papers on distributional semantics, there were some on extending the coverage of existing wordnets, linking wordnets to new resources (especially in the medical domain), using wordnets for teaching and many other topics. There were papers from 24 different countries with every continent except Antarctica represented. The conference and workshops were partially supported by the NTU Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) and the Singapore MOE TRF Grant Syntactic Well-Formedness Diagnosis and Error-Based Coaching in Computer Assisted Language Learning using Machine Translation Technology. Support for students came from the Global Wordnet Association. We would like to thank the programme committee for their thoughtful and timely reviews. The conference homepage is