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 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]

For the rugby player, see Jim Breen (rugby league).

His EDICT dictionary and WWWJDIC server have been described as "reliable and close to comprehensive".[1] His 180,000-word lexicon has been used to build other Japanese language learning sites such as Rikai and Jisho.org.[1]

He remains a board member of the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University.[3]

References
  1. Alexander Jacoby (21 November 2006). "Net resources make light work of Japanese study". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
  2. Mary Sisk Noguchi (30 August 2002). "KANJI CLINIC: Cyberspace — the final frontier of kanji-learning". The Japan Times.
  3. "Welcome to the Japanese Studies Centre". Monash Asia Institute, Monash University. 7 December 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2014.



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