Academic
James F. Allen (computer scientist)
American computer scientist and linguist (born 1950)
- Life
- 1950 – present
- Born
- 1950
- Nationality
- United States
James Frederick Allen 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". He is the John H. Dessaurer Professor of Comp
