#htl The JMDict Project
#shc The JMDict Project

#b Background

The JMdict (Japanese-Multilingual Dictionary) project has at its aim the 
compilation of a multilingual lexical 
database with Japanese as the pivot language.
The project began in 1999 as
an offshoot of the EDICT Japanese-English Electronic Dictionary project.
It involved a major rebuild of the main files, with a more complex
structure using XML.

The first release of the JMdict file occurred in May 1999, with
occasional releases after that. From mid-2006 the JMdict file has been 
generated daily from the source database
(along with the matching EDICT and EDICT2 files.)
The source database is updated almost every day. The version linked below
will always be the most recent version.

#b Information

#uls
#li the 
#url jmdict_proj_desc.html project overview.
#i (somewhat dated now)

#li
the
#url http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict_doc.html documentation
page for both JMdict and EDICT.

#li a 
#url http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/jmdictart.html paper
about the project presented at the COLING Multilingual 
Linguistic Resources Workshop in Geneva in August 2004. 

#li an earlier
#url http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ws2002_paper.html paper
about some of the practical issues, presented at the Papillon
Project workshop in Tokyo in July 2002.

#li a 
#url jmdict_sample.html sample
from the JMdict file
(you'll need Unicode/UTF8 support in your browser to see
this.)

#li the 
#url jmdict_dtd_h.html DTD (XML Document Type Declaration)
or 
#url jmdict_dtd_v107 download 
the file.

#li the
#url ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/JMdict.gz current version 
(Unicode UTF8) (Warning! This is a big file.)

#li information about the 
#url jmdict_whatsnew.html most recent
JMdict release.
#ule

#b Distribution and Copyright

The JMdict file is copyright. It may be used quite freely
subject to conditions stated in the 
#url http://www.edrdg.org/edrdg/licence.html licence statement.

#h <hr>
Jim Breen's 
#url index.html Home Page
and 
#url japanese.html Japanese Page