Development of Thai-Japanese e-Dictionary

Abstract

The purpose of this project is to create a Thai-Japanese dictionary for students at Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology (TNI) who are studying Japanese language and technical Japanese words. The dictionary’s database initially contains about 50,000 Japanese words which were created from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)’s XML database of Japanese-Thai dictionary, the Technology Promotion Association (Thailand-Japan) (TPA)’s Japanese-Thai Technical words dictionary and Thai–Japanese Tourism dictionary. The structure of the database is divided to multiple fields including Romaji, Kana, Kanji, Thai, English, synonym, sample sentence, parts, field, etymology and style. Our e-dictionary uses the TNI’s website for testing the system while at the same time provide service to the students and general Thai and Japanese users. Accessing of Japanese word can be done by entering Romaji, Kana or Kanji. Accessing of Thai words can be done by entering Thai characters. The development of new Thai and Japanese words is done by a group of researchers, TNI-TUFS staffs and students who are involved in proposing, editing and approving of new words. More than 3,000 technical words in Engineering, Information Technology and Business Administration field are being added to the database via TNI web service.