James F. Allen
| James Frederick Allen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1950 |
| Residence | USA |
| Fields | Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics |
| Institutions | University of Rochester |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Academic advisors | C. 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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[edit] Biography
Allen received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1979, under the supervision of C. 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]
[edit] Books
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]
[edit] Awards and honors
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]
[edit] References
- ^ The ACM digital library and the AI genealogy project list Allen's middle name as "Frederick"; the Mathematics Genealogy Project incorrectly lists it as "Francis".
- ^ Faculty listing, linguistics department, Rochester University, retrieved 2011-01-05.
- ^ ACM Digital Library entry for Allen's thesis, A plan-based approach to speech act recognition, retrieved 2011-01-05.
- ^ AI Genealogy Project, retrieved 2011-01-05.
- ^ James Francis Allen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project..
- ^ a b c d e f Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2011-01-05.
- ^ Some Notes on ACL History, Karen Sparck Jones, 2002, retrieved 2011-01-05.
- ^ Computational Linguistics, Julia Hirschberg, 2002, retrieved 2011-01-05.
- ^ Profile at IHMC, retrieved 2011-01-06.
- ^ Review by Michael Kac (1988), Computational Linguistics 14 (4): 96–97.
- ^ Review by Mona Singh (1996), ACM Computing Reviews.
- ^ Review by Mitchell Marks and Kristian J. Hammond (1993), ACM SIGART Bulletin 4 (2): 8–11, doi:10.1145/152941.1064726 .
- ^ "Fellows of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence", AI Magazine 11 (4): 13–14, 1990, http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/download/864/782.
