Prior to my retirement in August 2003, I was a Principal Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor for just on 18 years at Monash and at Chisholm Institute of Technology. Until mid-2025 I was an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University, and also a member of the Board of the Centre. Until July 2012 I held a similar adjunct position in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash. Some more background and personal information is here. Quals: BSc (Melb), MBA (Melb), PhD (Melb), AMusA (AMEB), RSA Email: jimbreen@gmail.com`

Research
In the past my primary research activity was in digital/data communications. Since my retirement I have worked primarily in computational linguistics, particularly in areas relating to Japanese electronic dictionaries and text processing. My major retirement project was a PhD in this field, under the supervision of Tim Baldwin (then) in the NLP Group at the University of Melbourne and Francis Bond (then) at NTU in Singapore. Here is a list of my papers.

Teaching
Virtually all my teaching (1985-2002) was in the field of digital and data communications. I taught subjects in the Computer Science and Digital Systems undergraduate courses, but mainly worked in the Master of Digital Communications. I have retained some on-line information about the subjects I taught.

Japanese
I have a particular interest in Things Japanese, and in particular the above-mentioned electronic Japanese/English dictionaries.
From December 2000 to June 2001 I was a Visiting Professor at the Research Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) in the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in Japan.

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