Frederick Jelinek
Also known as Bedřich Jelínek, Fred Jelinek
Frederick Jelinek, who completed his MIT doctorate in 1962, worked on speech recognition and machine translation. At IBM he headed the Continuous Speech Recognition group until 1993, and in 1990 he co-authored a paper on statistical machine translation. He joined Johns Hopkins University in 1993 as director of its Center for Language and Speech Processing. The Association for Computational Linguistics gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. He died of a heart attack in 2010, aged 77.
Timeline
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1962
Joining the Cornell faculty
He completes his MIT doctorate in 1962 and joins the faculty of Cornell University.
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1972–1993
Heading IBM's speech group
At IBM he heads the Continuous Speech Recognition group until 1993.
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1990
Statistical machine translation
Eight authors, including him, write A Statistical Approach to Machine Translation in 1990.
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1993
Directing a Johns Hopkins center
In 1993, he retires from IBM and joins Johns Hopkins University as director of the Center for Language and Speech Processing.
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2006
Membership in the National Academy
The National Academy of Engineering inducts him in 2006.
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2009
ACL Lifetime Achievement Award
The Association for Computational Linguistics gives him its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.
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September 2010
Death from a heart attack
He dies of a heart attack in September 2010, aged 77.
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2017
A workshop that bears his name
The 2017 Jelinek Memorial Workshop on Speech and Language Technology carries his name.
Sources and credits
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