Development of the multimedia database for Teaching & Learning Japanese

本项目已经开发了三年的日语教学多媒体数据库。(1)汉字词典数据库(约6,000个字母)(2)汉字日式词典数据库(约4,000个字母)(3)基本词库(约3,000个日语词典)(4)用法数据库(约7,000个用法)(5)学术术语数据库(约100,000个科技术语)(6)日英词典(约7,000个单词，来自Kodanasha PAX词典)(7)阅读文本数据库(约90本教科书、小说、文章、书籍和电影剧本)这个项目的几个成员访问了这些国家，调查他们对日语教育的需求和使用这个数据库系统的能力。还为用户写下了使用这些功能的手册。在美国、加拿大、意大利、澳大利亚和日本进行了原型系统的可行性和评估研究。此外，作为项目去年的一项活动，还进行了公开演示，报告了项目的结果，并展示了数据库及其实用软件。根据外国用户的反应以及可行性和评估研究的结果，该数据库显示出可能是支持日语学习者从初级到高级的优秀系统。

Our project had developed the multimedia database for teaching and learning Japanese for three years.The following the database of teaching and learning materials developed.(1) Dictionary database of Kanji (about 6,000 letters)(2) Hitsujun database of Kanji (about 4,000 letters)(3) Basic word database (about 3,000 words from Basic Japanese Dictionary)(4) Usage database (about 7,000 usages)(5) Academic term database (about 100,000 words from technical and academic terms)(6) Japanese-English dictionary (about 7,000 words from the Kodansha PAX dictionary)(7) Text database for readings (about 90 textbooks, novels, articles, books and movie script)Several members of this project had visited the countries to investigate their needs for Japanese education and abilities to use this database system.Manuals to use these features were also written down for users. Feasibility and evaluation studies of the prototype system were conducted in following countries : USA,Canada, Italy, Australia and Japan.In addition to above developments, as an last year's activity of the project, the public presentation was conducted to report the outcomes of the project and to demonstrate the database and its utility softwares.According to the reaction from users of foreign countries and the results of feasibility and evaluation studies, this database shown itself as possible outstanding systems to support the Japanese learners from beginning level to advanced level.