A deterministic dependency parser for Japanese

Note: This is a slightly revised version of the original paper. Some typographical errors have been corrected. This version was produced on 5th November 1999. We present a rule-based, deterministic depen-dency parser for Japanese. It was implemented in C++, using object classes that reflect linguis-tic concepts and thus facilitate the transfer of linguistic intuitions into code. The parser first chunks morphemes into one-word phrases and then parses from the right to the left. The av-erage parsing accuracy is 83.6%.