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Fred Jelinek (1932 – 2010)


Researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing.
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Fred Jelinek
It is generally believed that scientific talent reveals itself in early youth. [...] This was certainly not my case. I somehow slid into my scientific profession. My mother wished for me to become a physician, just like my father. [...] I myself wanted to be a lawyer, defender of the unjustly accused. But my career is the result of political circumstances, academic possibilities, and lucky accidents.
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Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of our speech recognition system goes up.
Jelinek
He was not a pioneer of speech recognition, he was the pioneer of speech recognition.




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