# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-f-allen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:59:53.863Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-f-allen"
name: "James F. Allen"
slug: "james-f-allen"
description: "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 Computer Science at the University of Rochester."
tagline: "American computational linguist"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.cs.rochester.edu/~james/"
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    title: "James F. Allen"
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    title: "جيمس إف. ألين"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James F. Allen"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_F._Allen_(computer_scientist)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump