... by JUMAN, a Japanese morphological analyzer, and KNP, a Japanese syntactic and case ana- lyzer (Kurohashi and Nagao, 1994; Kurohashi and Nagao, 199 8). Then, a genus word for a head word, ... Semantic Analysis of Japanese Noun Phrases : A New Approach to Dictionary-Based Understanding Sadao Kurohashi and Yasuyuki Sakai Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Yoshida-honmachi, ... number of studies have been made. For example, the case grammar theory is a semantic valence theory that describes the logical form of a sentence in terms of a predicate and a series of case-labeled...