The 9th conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language (AINL 2020), which takes place in Helsinki, Finland on October 7-9, invites everyone interested in intellectual technologies, both from academic institutes and innovative companies. The conference aimed to bring together experts in the areas of text mining, speech technologies, dialogue systems, information retrieval, machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics; to create a platform for sharing experience, extending contacts and searching for possible collaboration.