James William Breen (born 1947) is a Research Fellow at

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, where he was a professor in the area of IT and telecommunications before his retirement in 2003. He holds a BSc in mathematics, an MBA and a PhD in

computational linguistics Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, computational linguistics ...

, all from the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne (colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public university, public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in the state ...

. He is well known for his involvement in several popular free

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

-related projects: the EDICT and JMDict Japanese–English dictionaries, the KANJIDIC

kanji are logographic Chinese characters, adapted from Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script, used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are ...

dictionary, and the

WWWJDIC WWWJDIC is an online Japanese dictionary based on the electronic dictionaries compiled and collected by Australian academic Jim Breen. The main Japanese–English dictionary file (EDICT) contains over 180,000 entries, and the ENAMDICT dictionary ...

portal which provides an interface to search them. His EDICT dictionary and WWWJDIC server have been described as "reliable and close to comprehensive". The 195,000-term lexicon is used by popular apps such a
ImiWa
(iOS) an
AEDict
(Android), and has been used to build other Japanese language learning sites such as Rikai and Jisho.org. He remains a board member of the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University.

References

External links

Jim Breen's home page

The WWWJDIC online Japanese dictionary
1947 births Living people Australian lexicographers Academic staff of Monash University {{Australia-academic-bio-stub