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In his LREC 2004 invited talk when awarded by the first ever Antonio Zampolli prize for his essential contributions to the use of spoken and written language resources, Frederick Jelinek has used the title “Some of My Best Friends Are Linguists”. He did so for many reasons, one of them being that he wanted to remove the perception that he dislikes linguists and linguistics after so many people used to cite his famous line from an old presentation at a Natural Language Processing Evaluation workshop in 1988, in which he said “Whenever I fire a linguist our system performance improves.”
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Hajič, J., Hajičová, E. (2007). Some of Our Best Friends Are Statisticians. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4629. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74628-7_2
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