CICLing2002wasthethirdannualConferenceonIntelligenttextprocessingand Computational Linguistics (hence the name CICLing); see www.CICLing.org. It was intended to provide a balanced view of the cutting edge developments in both theoretical foundations of computational linguistics and practice of natural language text processing with its numerous applications. A feature of CICLing conferences is their wide scope that covers nearly all areas of computational linguistics and all aspects of natural language processing applications. The c- ference is a forum for dialogue between the specialists working in these two areas. This year we were honored by the presence of our invited speakers Ni- lettaCalzolari (Inst. for Computational Linguistics, Italy), Ruslan Mitkov (U.of Wolverhampton, UK), Ivan Sag (Stanford U., USA), Yorick Wilks (U. of She?eld), and Antonio Zampolli (Inst. for Computational Linguistics, Italy). They delivered excellent extended lectures and organized vivid discussions. Of 67 submissions received, after careful reviewing 48 were selected for p- sentation; of them, 35 as full papers and 13 as short papers; by 98 authors from 19countries: Spain (18 authors), Mexico (13), Japan, UK (8each), Israel (7), Germany, Italy, USA (6each), Switzerland (5), Taiwan(4), Ireland (3), A- tralia, China, CzechRep., France, Russia (2each), Bulgaria, Poland, Romania (1 each).

Computational Linguistics.- Multiword Expressions: A Pain in the Neck for NLP.- A Hypothesis on the Origin of the Sign Types.- Quantification and Intensionality in Situation Semantics.- Generalized Quantification in Situation Semantics.- Sign Language Translation via DRT and HPSG.- Multilayered Extended Semantic Networks as a Language for Meaning Representation in NLP Systems.- Constructing a Sensuous Judgment System Based on Conceptual Processing.- Towards a Natural Language Driven Automated Help Desk.- Lexical Tuning.- A Baseline Methodology for Word Sense Disambiguation.- An Adapted Lesk Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation Using WordNet.- Feature Selection Analysis for Maximum Entropy-Based WSD.- Combining Supervised-Unsupervised Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation.- A Proposal for WSD Using Semantic Similarity.- A New, Fully Automatic Version of Mitkov's Knowledge-Poor Pronoun Resolution Method.- Pronominal Anaphora Generation in an English-Spanish MT Approach.- Using LSA for Pronominal Anaphora Resolution.- The Spanish Auxiliary Verb System in HPSG.- Surface Syntactic Relations in Spanish.- Parsing Ill-Formed Inputs with Constraint Graphs.- Part-of-Speech Tagging with Evolutionary Algorithms.- Formal Methods of Tokenization for Part-of-Speech Tagging.- Sepe: A POS Tagger for Spanish.- Fuzzy Set Tagging.- Towards a Standard for a Multilingual Lexical Entry: The EAGLES/ISLE Initiative.- Quantitative Comparison of Homonymy in Spanish EuroWordNet and Traditional Dictionaries.- Compilation of a Spanish Representative Corpus.- Aligning Multiword Terms Using a Hybrid Approach.- Automatic Selection of Defining Vocabulary in an Explanatory Dictionary.- Integrated Natural Language Generation with Schema-Tree Adjoining Grammars.- Experiments with a Bilingual DocumentGeneration Environment.- A Computational Model of Change in Politeness with the Addition of Word Endings.- Tartar Morphology Implementation.- Automatic Generation of Pronunciation Lexicons for Spanish.- Intelligent Text Processing.- Diacritics Restoration: Learning from Letters versus Learning from Words.- A Comparative Study of Information Extraction Strategies.- Answer Extraction in Technical Domains.- Automatic Extraction of Non-standard Lexical Data for a Metalinguistic Information Database.- Text Segmentation for Efficient Information Retrieval.- Using Syntactic Dependency-Pairs Conflation to Improve Retrieval Performance in Spanish.- Multi-document Summarization Using Informative Words and Its Evaluation with a QA System.- Automated Selection of Interesting Medical Text Documents by the TEA Text Analyzer.- Chinese Documents Classification Based on N-Grams.- Cross-Lingual Document Similarity Calculation Using the Multilingual Thesaurus EUROVOC.- Empirical Formula for Testing Word Similarity and Its Application for Constructing a Word Frequency List.- AutoMarkup: A Tool for Automatically Marking up Text Documents.- Identification of Recurrent Patterns to Extract Definitory Contexts.- Specification Marks Method: Design and Implementation.