... role of word-to-word relations in parsing (Charniak,2000; Collins, 1996), dependency grammars havegained a certain popularity; e.g., Yamada and Mat-sumoto (2003) for English, Kudo and Matsumoto(2000; ... in-dicates the derivation of a nominal form, a pastparticiple, with +Noun as the part -of- speech and +PastPart, as the minor part -of- speech, withsome additional inflectional features. Finally, ... (Klein and Manning, 2003; Chung and Rim, 2004).For parsing, we use a version of the BackwardBeam Search Algorithm (Sekine et al., 2000) de-veloped for Japanese dependency analysis adaptedto...