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James Allen, Ph.D.
Discipline: Computer Science
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BiographyJames Allen’s research interests lie at the intersection of language and reasoning, and span a range of issues including natural language understanding, dialogue systems, knowledge representation, common-sense reasoning and planning. He has made significant contributions in a wide range of areas in Artificial Intelligence, including groundhreaking work in plan-based models of speech acts, interval-based temporal reasoning, plan recognition and dialogue systems. In the last five years, he has been focusing on designing and building end-to-end real-time spoken dialogue systems that require and exploit common-sense reasoning to collaborate with the user. The Rochester Intelligent Planning System (TRIPS) is a planning assistant that can converse in spoken natural language with a person to create, discuss and evaluate various different plans and situations. The system can be used successfully to solve problems without any prior training of the user.
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