James F. Allen (computer scientist)

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James Frederick Allen
Born1950 (age 73–74)
Alma materUniversity of Toronto (Ph.D., 1979)
Known forTRIPS (An Integrated Intelligent Problem-Solving Assistant)
PLOW (A Collaborative Task Learning Agent)
AwardsAAAI Fellow (1990, Founding) [1]
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing & Understanding
Computational Linguistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Rochester
IHMC
ThesisA plan-based approach to speech act recognition (1979)
Academic advisorsC. Raymond Perrault
Notable studentsGarrison Cottrell
Henry Kautz
Diane Litman
Websitewww.cs.rochester.edu/~james/

James Frederick Allen (born 1950) is an American computational linguist recognized for his contributions to temporal logic, in particular Allen's interval algebra. He is interested in knowledge representation, commonsense reasoning, and natural language understanding, believing that "deep language understanding can only currently be achieved by significant hand-engineering of semantically-rich formalisms coupled with statistical preferences".[2] He is the John H. Dessaurer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester.[3]

  1. ^ AAAI FELLOWS
  2. ^ James F. Allen homepage on Rochester
  3. ^ Faculty listing Archived 2010-06-25 at the Wayback Machine, linguistics department, Rochester University, retrieved 2011-01-05.