James F. Allen (computer scientist)
James Frederick Allen | |
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| Born | 1950 (age 73–74) |
| Alma mater | Computational Linguistics |
| Institutions | University of Rochester IHMC |
| Thesis | A plan-based approach to speech act recognition (1979) |
| Academic advisors | C. Raymond Perrault |
| Notable students | Garrison Cottrell Henry Kautz Diane Litman |
| Website | www |
James Frederick Allen (born 1950) is an American
Biography
Allen received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1979, under the supervision of C. Raymond Perrault,[4][5][6] after which he joined the faculty at Rochester.[7] 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.[7] He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Computational Linguistics from 1983–1993.[7][8][9] Since 2006 he has also been associate director of the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.[7][10]
Academic life
TRIPS project
The TRIPS project is a long-term research to build generic technology for dialogue (both spoken and 'chat') systems, which includes natural language processing, collaborative problem solving, and dynamic context-sensitive language modeling. This is contrast with the data driven approaches by machine learning, which requires to collect and annotate corpora, i.e. training data, firstly.[11]
PLOW agent
PLOW agent is a system that learns executable task models from a single collaborative learning session, which integrates wide AI technologies including deep natural language understanding, knowledge representation and reasoning, dialogue systems, planning/agent-based systems, and machine learning. This paper won the outstanding paper award at AAAI in 2007.[12]
Selected works
Books
Allen is the author of the textbook Natural Language Understanding (Benjamin-Cummings, 1987; 2nd ed., 1995).[13][14]
He is also the co-author with Henry Kautz, Richard Pelavin, and Josh Tenenberg of Reasoning About Plans (Morgan Kaufmann, 1991).[15]
Articles
- 2007. PLOW: A Collaborative Task Learning Agent. (with Nathanael Chambers et al) AAAI'07
- won the outstanding paper award at AAAI in 2007.
- 2006. Chester: Towards a Personal Medication Advisor. (with N. Blaylock, et al) Biomedical informatics 39(5)
- 1998. TRIPS: An Integrated Intelligent Problem-Solving Assistant. (with George Ferguson) AAAI'98
- 1983. Maintaining Knowledge about Temporal Intervals. CACM 26, 11, 832-843
Awards and honors
In 1991 he was elected as a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (1990, founding fellow).[1][16]
In 1992 he became the Dessaurer Professor at Rochester.[7]
References
- ^ a b AAAI FELLOWS
- ^ James F. Allen homepage on Rochester
- ^ Faculty listing Archived 2010-06-25 at the Wayback Machine, 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 Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2011-01-05.
- ^ James Francis Allen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ a b c d e Curriculum vitae Archived 2006-09-06 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2011-01-05.
- ^ Some Notes on ACL History, Karen Sparck Jones, 2002, retrieved 2011-01-05.
- ^ Computational Linguistics Archived 2011-05-27 at the Wayback Machine, Julia Hirschberg, 2002, retrieved 2011-01-05.
- ^ Profile at IHMC, retrieved 2011-01-06.
- ^ TRIPS: An Integrated Intelligent Problem-Solving Assistant, AAAI'98
- ^ PLOW: A Collaborative Task Learning Agent, AAAI'07
- ^ Review by Michael Kac Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine (1988), Computational Linguistics 14 (4): 96–97.
- ^ [Review by Mona Singh] (1996), ACM Computing Reviews.
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- ^ "Fellows of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence", AI Magazine, 11 (4): 13–14, 1990
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