Education
Allen received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1979, under the supervision of C. Raymond Perrault, after which he joined the faculty at Rochester.
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James Allen
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Career
He is the John H. Dessaurer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester 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 He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Computational Linguistics from 1983-1993. 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, id est (that is) training data, firstly.
PLOW agent PLOW agent is a system that learns executable task models from a single collaborative learning session, which integrates wide Artificial Intelligence technologies include deep natural language understanding, knowledge representation and reasoning, dialogue systems, planning/agent-based systems, and machine learning.
