Preface

Our very warm welcome to CLiC - it 2016 (http://clic - it2016.dieti.unina.it/), the 3 rd edition of the Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics , held on December 5 th and 6 th , in Naples, Italy, co - located with Evalita 2016 ( http://www.evalita.it/2016 ), hosted and locally organized by Università Federico II, one the oldest public and laic universities in the world. The organization of the conference is the result of a fruitful conjoint effort of different research groups (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" del CNR, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro and Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) showing the nationwide spreading of Computational Linguistics in Italy. The CLiC - it conference series is organized by the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics (AILC) and has clearly established itself as the premier national forum for research and development in the fields of Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), where leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry meet to share their challenges, solutions, research results, and experiences. CLiC - it covers all aspects of computational linguistics and natural language (both written and spoken) processing, and targets state - of - art theoretical results, experimental methodologies, technologies, as well as application perspectives, which may contribute to advance the field.