Introduction

It is a great pleasure for me to present the second issue from the third Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW3). CLSW3 was held from May 1-4, 2002 at Academia Sinica in Taipei. The first two workshops (also known as Chinese Language Science Workshop: Lexical Semantics) were held at the Institute of Chinese Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong in October 2000 and at the Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University in May 2001 respectively. The next workshop (CLSW4) returns to the City University of Hong Kong in 2003. CLSW3 shares with its predecessors an interdisciplinary approach as well as a focus on how meaning is represented and processed in Chinese. The versatility of the research approaches employed made it necessary for the papers to be published in two different fields to ensure high-quality peer review.