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dbpedia:Frederick_Jelinek

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Frederick Jelinek (18 November 1932 – 14 September 2010) was a Czech-American researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He was well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up".Jelinek was born in Czechoslovakia just before the outbreak of World War II and emigrated with his family to the United States in the early years of the communist regime.

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Jelinek, Frederick

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Computational linguist, speech recognition specialist

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Jelínek, Bedřich; Jelinek, Fred

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dbpedia:Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology

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n4:_Flanagan_Speech_and_Audio_Processing_Award dbpedia:Association_for_Computational_Linguistics

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1932-11-18Z

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Bedřich Jelínek

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dbpedia:Kladno dbpedia:Czechoslovakia dbpedia:Czech_Republic dbpedia:Central_Bohemian_Region

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1932-01-01Z

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2010-09-14Z

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dbpedia:Baltimore dbpedia:Homewood_Campus_of_Johns_Hopkins_University

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2010-01-01Z

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dbpedia:Robert_Fano

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dbpedia:Information_theory dbpedia:Natural_language_processing

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dbpedia:Roman_Jakobson

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dbpedia:Neil_Sloane

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dbpedia:Milena_Jelinek