This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2014, held in Montpellier, France, in June 2014. The 13 long papers, 8 short papers, 14 poster papers, and 7 demo papers presented together with 2 invited talks in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: syntactic, lexical and semantic analysis; information extraction; information retrieval and sentiment analysis and social networks.