This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2020, held in Saarbrücken, Germany, in June 2020.

The 15 full papers and 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: semantic analysis; question answering and answer generation; classification; sentiment analysis; personality, affect and emotion; retrieval, conversational agents and multimodal analysis.

The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.