This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ThirdInternational Conference on I ntelligent Text Processing andComputational 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.Keywords: Computational linguistics, intelligent text processing, natural language processing (NLP), semantics, text mining, document processing