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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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]
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