# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederick-jelinek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:00:42.060Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frederick-jelinek"
name: "Frederick Jelinek"
slug: "frederick-jelinek"
description: "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\"."
tagline: "Czech linguist (1932–2010)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Educators"
  slug: "educators"
profileType:
  name: "Educator"
  slug: "educator"
birthDate: "1932-11-18"
deathDate: "2010-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.94
  momentum:             0.2063789868667917
  historical:           5.752917333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 234
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fred_Jelinek"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "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"
    title: "فريدريك جيلينك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "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"
    title: "فردریک جلیلک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed%C5%99ich_Jel%C3%ADnek"
    title: "Bedřich Jelínek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Jelinek"
    title: "Frederick Jelinek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "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"
    title: "Джелинек, Фредерик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Jelinek"
    title: "Frederick Jelinek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3497144"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump