This special issue of Language Resources and Evaluation includes a selection of extended papers from the Ninth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in May 2014. The conference drew a record number of participants, reflecting the steadily increasing interest and activity in the field of language resource creation, enhancement, management, and evaluation since the first LREC was held in 1998. The selection of articles for this special issue was made on the basis of recommendations from LREC reviewers, who were asked to indicate suitability for publication of an extended version in LRE for each paper they reviewed.