Jim Breen
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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.[1] 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]
His EDICT dictionary and WWWJDIC server have been described as "reliable and close to comprehensive".[1] His 100,000-word lexicon has been used to build other Japanese language learning sites such as Rikai.[1]
He remains a board member of the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University.[3]
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- ^ a b c d Alexander Jacoby (2006-11-21). Net resources make light work of Japanese study. The Japan Times. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ Mary Sisk Noguchi (2002-08-30). KANJI CLINIC: Cyberspace — the final frontier of kanji-learning. The Japan Times. Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
- ^ About the JSC. Monash Asia Institute, Monash University (2007-12-07). Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
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