23GICAS (Grammatological Informatics based on the Corpora of Asian Scripts) is one of the ‘COE’ (Centers of Excellence) academic institutions, funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientic Research (Priority Areas Research) of Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). GICAS is built in 5 years, from 2001 to 2005, with an approximate total budget of 500 million yen.‘Grammatological Informatics’ is a new academic branch, which concentrates to give a well-founded scientic basis for the research of ‘script’s and ‘character’s (quite rich and abundant especially in Asia) of human language, through re-evaluation of them as an infrastructure of the communication.GICAS builds Corpora of Canons, royal manuscripts, as well as other linguistic sources, i.e., ‘Corpora of Asian Scripts’, which reect the long academic tradition of thoughts and contemplations on ‘script’s and ‘character’s in Asia, and history of their usage. Only through the verication through this Corpora, implemented by utmost advanced techniques of information processing, emerges the new academic sphere ‘Grammatological Informatics’ well founded, and promotes practical applications of its outcomes.GICAS will be an internationally accessible reference center of scripts and characters, which enables Japan to continue to play a conducting role in the study of Asian scripts.GICAS became an autonomous COE institution since 2006 after ve-years aid by MEXT. It is undertaking the task of offering a new paradigm of grammatological informatics, as well as upbuilding the result made by the projects so far. The Information Resources Strategy Unit is responsible for the organization of GICAS since 2006.GICAS has its own Internet domain-name (gicas.jp), the GICAS home page is located at http://www.gicas.jp/ where on-going researches and their outcomes are published.Grammatological Informatics Based on the Corpora of Asian Scripts (GICAS)
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