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Frederick Jelinek 1932-2010
Pages 214-217

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... Jelinek studied the newly developing field of information theory at the Massachusetts institute of Technology under Professor robert fano. Jelinek had begun to develop an interest in linguistics after the immigration of his wife, who initially enrolled in the linguistics program at MiT; he often accompanied her to linguistics classes.
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... The computer-selected word is thus based on the so-called n-gram statistical grammar commonly used in speech recognition systems today. With such types of grammar as the discrete source models, Jelinek treated the speech recognition problem, or rather the natural language processing problem, as a noisy-channel discrete decoding problem and advocated the method of maximum likelihood decoding.
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... in 1993 Jelinek retired from iBM and joined John Hopkins University as director of the center for language and speech Processing and Julian sinclair smith Professor of electrical and computer engineering. soon after joining Johns Hopkins, Jelinek started to organize the annual summer workshop on spoken-language research, which has benefitted many younggeneration research engineers and students, even to this date.
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