This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing, CCKS 2020, held in Nanchang, China, in November 2020.

The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 173 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge extraction: lexical and entity; knowledge extraction: relation; knowledge extraction: event; knowledge applications: question answering, dialogue, decision support, and recommendation.