Jim Breen
James William Breen | |
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| Born | 1947 (age 77–78) |
| Other names | Jim Breen |
| Occupation(s) | Head of the Department of Digital Systems, Monash University |
| Known for | WWWJDIC |
| Title | Professor |
| Board member of | Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Melbourne, Australian Music Examinations Board |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
| Thesis | Extraction of neologisms from Japanese corpora (2017) |
| Doctoral advisor | Tim Baldwin |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | computing and information systems |
| Sub-discipline | digital and data communications |
| Institutions | Chisholm Institute of Technology, University of Melbourne |
| Website | https://www.edrdg.org/~jwb/ |
James William Breen (born 1947) was, until July 2025, a Research Fellow at Monash University in Australia, where he was a professor in the area of IT and telecommunications before his retirement in 2003.[1] He holds a BSc in mathematics, an MBA and a PhD in computational linguistics, all from the University of Melbourne. 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.[1][2][3]
His EDICT dictionary and WWWJDIC server have been described as "reliable and close to comprehensive".[1] The 210,000-term lexicon is used by popular apps such as ImiWa (iOS) and AEDict (Android), and has been used to build other Japanese language learning sites such as Rikai and Jisho.org.[1]
He was a board member of the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Alexander Jacoby (21 November 2006). "Net resources make light work of Japanese study". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
- ^ Mary Sisk Noguchi (30 August 2002). "KANJI CLINIC: Cyberspace – the final frontier of kanji-learning". The Japan Times.
- ^ Morales, Daniel (25 June 2018). "At 180,000 entries, Jim Breen's freeware Japanese dictionary is still growing". The Japan Times. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ^ "Welcome to the Japanese Studies Centre". Monash Asia Institute, Monash University. 7 December 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
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