Back فريدريك جيلينك ARZ فردریک جلیلک AZB Bedřich Jelínek Czech Джелинек, Фредерик Russian Frederick Jelinek SIMPLE
Frederick Jelinek | |
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| Born | Bedřich Jelínek November 18, 1932 Kladno, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
| Died | September 14, 2010 (aged 77) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Advancement of natural language processing techniques |
| Spouse | Milena Jelinek |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Information theory, natural language processing |
| Institutions | Cornell University, IBM Research, Johns Hopkins University |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Fano |
| Notable students | Neil Sloane |
Frederick Jelinek (18 November 1932 – 14 September 2010) was a Czech-American researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He is well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up".[note 1]
Jelinek was born in Czechoslovakia before World War II and emigrated with his family to the United States in the early years of the communist regime. He studied engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taught for 10 years at Cornell University before accepting a job at IBM Research. In 1961, he married Czech screenwriter Milena Jelinek. At IBM, his team advanced approaches to computer speech recognition and machine translation. After IBM, he went to head the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University for 17 years, where he was still working on the day he died.
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