This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third CCF Conference, NLPCC 2014, held in Shenzhen, China, in December 2014. The 35 revised full papers presented together with 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 English submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on fundamentals on language computing; applications on language computing; machine translation and multi-lingual information access; machine learning for NLP; NLP for social media; NLP for search technology and ads; question answering and user interaction; web mining and information...