Relative Clause Coordination and Subordination in Japanese

The research described in this paper is a direct extension of Baldwin et al. (1997), which proposed a declarative rule-based system to analyse gapping in simple Japanese relative clauses. Two shortcomings of this original framework are its inability to handle complex relative clauses, and its non-deterministic nature in choosing between multiple parses for the main verb of the relative clause. Here, we first propose two methods of scoring verb parses to make the system deterministic, and then apply the most successful verb scoring method in the analysis of relative clause subordination and coordination.