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

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. He is well known for his involvement in several popular free Japanese-related projects: the EDICT and JMDict Japanese–English dictionaries, the KANJIDIC

kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequ ...

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
ImaWa
(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

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