Some Lexical Resources

• ja-en Computational Linguistics Term List (zipped)
  • Edict formatted list of Japanese/English Computational Linguistics Terms (> 3,300 index terms)
  • Sample: 機械翻訳 [きかいほんやく] /(n) machine translation/MT/
  • License: Creative Commmons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
  • Also available in the Universal Terminology eXchange format (UTX)
    • Ja-En UTX formatted (zipped)
    • Ja-En UTX formatted best translation only (zipped)
    • En-Ja UTX formatted (zipped)
    • En-Ja UTX formatted best translation only (guessed) (zipped)
  • For more information see (and cite):

    Francis Bond, Seiji Okura, Yuji Yamamoto, Toshiki Murata, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Michael Kato, Miwako Shimazu and Tsugiyoshi Suzuki (2009)

    Sharing User Dictionaries Across Multiple Systems with UTX-S. In Second International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC-2009), Stanford.

    It is also part of Oki Denki's Yaku-shite Netto user dictionary community.
  • It can be looked up at Jim Breen's WWWJIDC.
• ja-ko hanzi variants
  • List of kanji equivalents in Japanese and Korean
  • Sample: 青 靑
  • License: public domain, use as you will!
  • Reference: Paik, Kyonghee, Francis Bond and Satoshi Shirai (2001) Using Multiple Pivots to align Korean and Japanese Lexical Resources In Workshop on Language Resources in Asia, NLPRS-2001,pp 63--70, Tokyo.
• Tanaka Corpus paraphrase data (link broken)
  • Japanese sentence with one or more English equivalents
  • License: public domain, use as you will!
  • Reference:
    Bond, Francis, Eric Nichols, Darren Scott Appling, Michael Paul (2008)
    Improving Statistical Machine Translation by Paraphrasing the Training Data, In IWSLT-2008.