Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing : Third International Conference CICLing 2002 Mexico City Mexico February 17–23 2002 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics CICLing 2002 held in Mexico City Mexico in February 2002.The 44 revised papers presented together with four invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 67 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on semantics word sense disambiguation amaphora syntax and parsing part of speech tagging lexicon and corpus text generation morphology speech spelling information extraction and information retrieval summarization text mining and text classification and categorization document processing and demo descriptions