1.Project name: Development of an Electronic Dictionary in Thai
2.Outline of the Project:
Based on the printed version of “Thai-Japanese, Japanese-Thai Dictionary for Thai People” (the Thailand-Japan Cultural Exchange Promotion Society) and “Unabridged Thai-Japanese Dictionary” (Mekong Publishing), we aim to develop an electronic dictionary and a machine-readable dictionary for corpus analysis.
3.Core Members in Charge: Minegishi, Makoto; Akagi, Osamu (Global COE Program Professor April 2008-May 2010), Sato, Hirokazu (Global COE Program Professor since April 2008)
4.Collaborating Researchers: Krisada Visavateeranon (President of Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology), Koichi-Mizutani (Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology)
5.Progress:
Regarding the academic and research use, electronic duplication, and the enlargement and revision of the described items and described contents of the “Thai-Japanese, Japanese-Thai Dictionary for Thai People” (the Japan-Thailand Cultural Exchange Promotion Society) and the “Unabridged Thai-Japanese Dictionary” (Mekong Publishing), we obtained a letter of consent addressed to the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies from the copyright holder of the original edition.
In 2007, we have made the data conversion work and formulation of the XML tag specifications for the Thai-Japanese, Japanese-Thai Dictionary.
Since 2008, we have made a beta version of the above dictionary open to the public via our web site for Thai to learn Japanese language. It contains approximately 20,000 Japanese and Thai headwords respectively. Also MOU has been prepared between Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology in Thailand and TUFS for further developing and revising electronic dictionaries and tools jointly.
Based on the above data, re-examining the descriptions of Thai language has been going on. After re-examining pronunciation completed in 2011, semantic analysis of verbs has been going on. Part of the results of analyzing verbs in Thai have were presented in Chula-Japan Linguistics Conference, the conferences of Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS XX and XXI), and the workshop held in Maison des Sciences de l’homme (House of the Sciences of Man) in Paris, 2011.
6.Accomplishments:
Online Dictionaries:
Thai-Japanese Dictionary (provisional edition)
URL: http//cblle.tufs.ac.jp/dic.th.thja/menu.html
Papers:
Osamu AKAGI and Makoto MINEGISHI (n.d.): “Bridging ASEAN with lexicology”', ‘Proceedings of the International Conference: Language, Literature and Culture in ASEAN: Unity and Diversity 4-5 August 2008’, pp. 16-26, 367pp, Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Printing House.
Minegishi, Makoto (2011): “Description of Thai as an isolating language”, Social Science Information, 50: 62-80.
Makoto MINEGISHI and Osamu AKAGI (2009): “Development of Electronic Dictionary for Analyzing Linguistic Data”, Proceedings of Chula-Japan Linguistics Conference 2008, pp.11-16, Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 2009.3.
Makoto MINEGISHI and Osamu AKAGI (2009): [in Japanese] “From digitization of Thai dictionary to Linguistic Analysis”, Proceedings of SIG-LSE-A901, pp.21-25, 2009/7/10.
Makoto MINEGISHI and Osamu AKAGI (2009): [in Japanese] “Development of Electronic Dictionaries: in case of Thai” CbLLE Research Report 3, p.183-194, Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2009.5.15.
Academic Presentations:
Minegishi, Makoto: “Semantic Characteristics of Constructions in Thai with Two Participants”, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS XXI), Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand, May 11-13, 2011.
Minegishi, Makoto “Verb Subclassification in Thai based on Syntactic Phenomena”, the 20th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS XX), the University of Zurich, Switzerland, June 10-11, 2010.
Minegishi, Makoto “Description of Thai as an Isolating Language”, Projet du 3e atelier consacré à la science generalisée de l’homme, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France, June 15-16, 2010.
Akagi, Osamu and Minegishi, Makoto: “Developing Electronic Dictionary based on Tomita’s unabridged Thai Dictionary”, Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Thai Studies 2009, Kyoto University, Japan, July 4-5, 2009.
Akagi, Osamu and Minegishi, Makoto: “Bridging ASEAN with Lexicology”, CU ASEAN Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, August 4, 2008.
Minegishi, Makoto and Akagi, Osamu: “Development of Electronic Dictionary for Analyzing Linguistic Data”, Chula-Japan Linguistics Conference, Culalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, May 1, 2008.