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D-Index
68
Citations
42744
World Ranking
2019
National Ranking
1020

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1977 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the characterization, analysis, and application of ferromagnetic materials in microwave devices.

Overview

James F. Allen is a researcher affiliated with the University of Rochester in the United States. Their primary field of study is Computer Science, with a substantial focus on Artificial Intelligence. Contributions also span areas such as Social Psychology, Mechanical Engineering, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Human-Computer Interaction.

The scientist's work concentrates on several main topics, including Natural Language Processing Techniques, Topic Modeling, Speech and Dialogue Systems, Color Perception and Design, Design Education and Practice, Product Development and Customization, and Hand Gesture Recognition Systems.

James F. Allen has published research papers in various recognized venues. Notable publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Applied Sciences
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Language Resources and Evaluation

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by James F. Allen are:

  • "A Parametric Product Design Framework for the Development of Mass Customized Head/Face (Eyewear) Products," 2021, Applied Sciences
  • "A Broad-Coverage Deep Semantic Lexicon for Verbs," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Learning Names for RFID-Tagged Objects in Activity Videos," 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "Hinting Semantic Parsing with Statistical Word Sense Disambiguation," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "COLLIE: a broad-coverage ontology and lexicon of verbs in English," 2022, Language Resources and Evaluation

Frequent co-authors associated with James F. Allen include Ritwik Bose, Hannah An, Choh Man Teng, Xiaobo Bai, and Omar Huerta.

James F. Allen has also contributed to book publications. Among these is a work published by the University of Nebraska Press titled "A Civil Society: The Public Space of Freemason Women in Modern France, 1744-1944" (2021).

The scientist has been recognized with awards such as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020 and IEEE Fellow in 1977 for contributions to the characterization, analysis, and application of ferromagnetic materials in microwave devices.

Best Publications

  • Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals

    James F. Allen

  • Natural Language Understanding

    James Allen

  • Towards a general theory of action and time

    James F. Allen

  • Analyzing intention in utterances

    J Allen;C R Perrault

  • Actions and Events in Interval Temporal Logic

    James F. Allen;George Ferguson

  • Generalized plan recognition

    Henry A. Kautz;James F. Allen

  • An interval-based representation of temporal knowledge

    James F. Allen

  • Toward Conversational Human-Computer Interaction

    James F. Allen;Donna K. Byron;Myroslava O. Dzikovska;George Ferguson

  • A plan recognition model for subdialogues in conversations

    Diane J. Litman;James F. Allen

  • Readings in Planning

    Austin Tate;James Hendler;James Allen

  • A Corpus and Cloze Evaluation for Deeper Understanding of Commonsense Stories

    Nasrin Mostafazadeh;Nathanael Chambers;Xiaodong He;Devi Parikh

  • TRIPs: an integrated intelligent problem-solving assistant

    George Ferguson;James F. Allen

  • A common-sense theory of time

    James F. Allen;Patrick J. Hayes

  • Time and Time Again: The Many Ways to Represent Time

    James F. Allen

  • Natural Language Understanding 2nd Ed

    James Allen

  • A plan-based analysis of indirect speech acts

    C. Raymond Perrault;James F. Allen

  • Planning using a temporal world model

    James F. Allen;Johannes A. Koomen

  • Draft of DAMSL Dialog Act Markup in Several Layers

    James Allen

  • Reasoning About Plans

    Ronald J. Brachman;James F. Allen;Henry A. Kautz;Richard N. Pelavin

  • The TRAINS Project: A Case Study in Defining a Conversational Planning Agent

    James F. Allen;Lenhart K. Schubert;George Ferguson;Peter Heeman

  • SemEval-2013 Task 1: TempEval-3: Evaluating Time Expressions, Events, and Temporal Relations

    Naushad UzZaman;Hector Llorens;Leon Derczynski;James Allen

Frequent Co-Authors

Amanda Stent
Amanda Stent Colby College
David Traum
David Traum University of Southern California
Joel Tetreault
Joel Tetreault Yahoo (United Kingdom)
Michael K. Tanenhaus
Michael K. Tanenhaus University of Rochester
Lucy Vanderwende
Lucy Vanderwende University of Washington
Daniel Gildea
Daniel Gildea University of Rochester
Henry Kautz
Henry Kautz University of Virginia
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Massimo Poesio
Massimo Poesio Queen Mary University of London
Jeffrey P. Bigham
Jeffrey P. Bigham Carnegie Mellon University

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