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James F. Allen
American computational linguist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1950 · age 76
James Frederick Allen is an American computational linguist recognized for his contributions to temporal logic, in particular Allen's interval algebra.
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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.