James Frederick Allen | |
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Born | 1950 |
Residence | USA |
Fields | Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics |
Institutions | University of Rochester |
Alma mater | University of Toronto |
Academic advisors | Charles Raymond Perrault |
Notable students | Henry Kautz |
Known for | TRIPS, PLOW |
James Frederick Allen[1] (born 1950) is a computational linguist recognized for his contributions to temporal logic, in particular Allen's Interval Algebra. He is the John H. Dessaurer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester.[2]
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Allen received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1979, under the supervision of (Charles) Raymond Perrault,[3][4][5] after which he joined the faculty at Rochester.[6] At Rochester, he was department chair from 1987 to 1990, directed the Cognitive Science Program from 1992 to 1996, and co-directed the Center for the Sciences of Language from 1996 to 1998.[6] He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Computational Linguistics from 1983-1993.[6][7][8] Since 2006 he has also been associate director of the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.[6][9]
Allen is the author of the textbook Natural Language Understanding (Benjamin-Cummings, 1987; 2nd ed., 1995).[10][11]
He is also the co-author with Henry Kautz, Richard Pelavin, and Josh Tenenberg of Reasoning About Plans (Morgan Kaufmann, 1991).[12]
In 1991 he was elected as a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.[6][13] In 1992 he became the Dessaurer Professor at Rochester.[6]