Jim Breen

Jim Breen

James William Breen (born 1947) is a Research Fellow at Monash University in Australia, where he was a professor in the area of telecommunications before his retirement in 2003.cite web | author=Alexander Jacoby | title=Net resources make light work of Japanese study | publisher="The Japan Times" | date=2006-11-21 | url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ek20061121a1.html | accessdate=2008-02-02] He is well known for his involvement in several popular free Japanese-related projects: the EDICT and JMDict Japanese-English dictionaries, the KANJIDIC kanji dictionary, and the WWWJDIC portal which provides an interface to search them.cite web | author=Mary Sisk Noguchi | title=KANJI CLINIC: Cyberspace — the final frontier of kanji-learning | publisher="The Japan Times" | date=2002-08-30 | url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ek20020830mn.html | accessdate=2008-02-03]

His EDICT dictionary and WWWJDIC server have been described as "reliable and close to comprehensive". His 100,000-word lexicon has been used to build other Japanese language learning sites such as Rikai.

He remains a board member of the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University.cite web | title=About the JSC | publisher="Monash Asia Institute", "Monash University" | date=2007-12-07 | url=http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/jsc/about.php | accessdate=2008-02-02]

References

External links

* [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Ejwb/ Jim Breen's home page]
* [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Ejwb/edict.html The EDICT home page]
* [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi The WWWJDIC online Japanese dictionary]


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