James F. Allen Scientist

James Frederick Allen (born 1950) is a 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". He is the John H. Dessaurer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester

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Birth dateJanuary 01, 1950
Education
University of Toronto

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