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The JMdict project was started by computational linguist Jim Breen in 1991 with the creation of EDICT (a plain text flat file in EUC-JP encoding), which was later expanded to a UTF-8-encoded XML file in 1999 as JMdict. [2] The XML format allows for multiple surface forms of lexemes and multiple readings, as well as cross-references and annotations.
Full verb conjugation in all tenses, and number conversion from digits to text in the available languages (e.g. "123" → "one hundred twenty-three"), are available through the program interface, as well as free access to online examples of language in use, and a discussion forum moderated by linguists and lexicographers.
The dictionary facility includes Kenkyūsha's New Japanese-English Dictionary and 70 other Japanese–English and English–Japanese dictionaries with 4,160,000 English words and 4,730,000 Japanese words. [2] As of January 20, 2016, a total of 665 dictionaries, encyclopedias and glossary sites can be searched in full. [3]
WWWJDIC is an online Japanese dictionary based on the electronic dictionaries compiled and collected by Australian academic Jim Breen.The main Japanese–English dictionary file contains over 180,000 [1] entries, and the ENAMDICT dictionary contains over 720,000 [1] Japanese surnames, first names, place names and product names.
The following is a list of notable print, electronic, and online Japanese dictionaries. This is a sortable table: clicking the arrows in the header cells will cause the table rows to sort based on the selected column, in ascending order first, and subsequently toggling between ascending and descending order.
In addition to machine translation, there is also an accessible and complete English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary. [6] There is an app for devices based on the iOS software, [7] Windows Phone and Android. You can listen to the pronunciation of the translation and the original text using a text to speech converter built in.
Reverso has been active since 1998, with the aim of providing online translation and linguistic tools to corporate and mass markets. [3] [4] In 2013 it released Reverso Context, a bilingual dictionary tool based on big data and machine learning algorithms. [5] In 2016 Reverso acquired Fleex, a service for learning English via subtitled movies.
The Dutch translator Hori Tatsunosuke (堀達之助), who interpreted for Commodore Perry, compiled the first true English–Japanese dictionary: A Pocket Dictionary of the English and Japanese Language (英和対訳袖珍辞書, Yosho-Shirabedokoro, 1862). It was based upon English-Dutch and Dutch-Japanese bilingual dictionaries, and contained ...