"Advances in Natural Language Processing" is a comprehensive collection of research papers that highlights the latest developments in the field of natural language processing. This publication is based on the peer-reviewed contributions from the 9th International Conference on this topic, which took place in September 2014 in Warsaw. Out of 83 submitted papers, 27 full and 20 short contributions were selected, covering a wide range of topics. The areas addressed include morphology and named entity recognition, machine translation, discourse analysis, and automatic summarization. This collection provides valuable insights into current trends and challenges in natural language processing and is of interest to both researchers and practitioners.