The website belongs to the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (EDRDG), which was established in 2000 at Monash University's Faculty of Information Technology. The group's primary objective is to compile electronic dictionaries and conduct research and development in applied computational linguistics, with a focus on computer lexicography. One of their major projects is the EDICT project, which has been operating for many years and consists of various Japanese-English dictionary files. These files are copyrighted and assigned to the EDRDG. Other ongoing projects include JMDict/EDict, an electronic dictionary database for Japanese-English translations, ENAMDICT/JMNEDict, a database for proper names in Japanse, and JMDictDB, an online database used to maintain JMDict/EDict and KanjiDicK.
