# Frederick Jelinek

> Frederick Jelinek 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".

*Czech linguist (1932–2010)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/frederick-jelinek

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Educator
- **Category:** Educators
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1932-11-18
- **Died:** 2010-09-14
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 41.9 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 5.8 / 100
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- **Source confidence:** 40.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 55.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #234

## Sources
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fred_Jelinek)
- [فريدريك جيلينك](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83)
- [فردریک جلیلک](https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%AC%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%84%DA%A9)
- [Bedřich Jelínek](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed%C5%99ich_Jel%C3%ADnek)
- [Frederick Jelinek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Jelinek)
- [Джелинек, Фредерик](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA)
- [Frederick Jelinek](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Jelinek)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3497144)

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