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Frederick Jelinek
Czech linguist (1932-2010) · United States · On the map · Educators · Died at 77
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".
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