C O M P D I C
JAPANESE/ENGLISH COMPUTING & TELECOMMUNICATIONS DICTIONARY FILE
Copyright (C) 2001 The Electronic Dictionary Research and Development
Group,
Monash University.
The COMPDIC file is a glossary of terms used in the computing and
(tele)communications industries. It is in the "EDICT" format, and is
intended for use as a generally available file for dictionary and
WP software systems.
The following sources of information have been used to compile this
file:
- the identifiable entries in the EDICT file itself;
- a large collection of material from the various JIS standards.
This has been extensively edited and reformated. Many are rather
old-fashioned (punched cards - forsooth), and many relate to OSI standards.
- an excellent glossary file of telecommunications and computing
terms prepared by Paul Denisowski (pad@fns.com). This file was intended
for separate release, put Paul has kindly agreed to fold it in.
- other terms I have collected along the way;
In preparing this file, I have used the following to help prepare &
check entries:
- the Kodansha "Great Japanese Dictionary", which is available in
Electronic Book format, and which I have been able to use on-line.
- Gene Ferber's "Dictionary of Computer & Data-Processing Terms",
(Tuttle, 1990)
- a file of Microsoft glossary information for the Japanese versions of
Win95, etc. (This has not been a lot of use, but occasionally is good
for cross-checking.)
Many thanks to Jean-Jacques Labarthe for many corrections to the
file. Thanks also to Paul Denisowski and Gururaj Rao for their valuable
contributions.
Jim Breen
October 1997, November 2001
jwb@csse.monash.edu.au