Hi, I am an alum of the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Currently I work on the natural language processing/text analysis team at Mayo Clinic.
For open source UIMA pipelines by Mayo Clinic and IBM for clinical NLPers, see OHNLP at the Vocabulary Knowledge Center.
Here's some information about my grad school experiences.
My graphics professor has some
grad school advice online.
Before returning to Madison for grad school, I lived in Minnesota, where I worked first for IBM and then for Insight Software.
Before that, I did my undergraduate work at UW-Madison.
After I received my Masters degree, I spent a year teaching for the Mathematics Department at UW-Madison.
For the fall 2001 semester I was one of the many instructors for Math 112 - College Algebra.
For the spring 2002 semester, I taught
a "discussion" section of Calculus with Algebra and Trigonometry II
for the WES program.
An architecture for complex clinical question answering, Rodney Nielsen, James Masanz, Philip Ogren, Wayne Ward, James Martin, Guergana Savova, Martha Palmer. In Proceedings of the First Annual ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI), 2010.
Mayo clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES): architecture, component evaluation and applications, Guergana Savova, James Masanz, Philip Ogren, Jiaping Zheng, Sunghwan Sohn, Karin Kipper-Schuler, Christopher Chute. JAMIA 2010;17:507-513.
Classification of Medication Status Change in Clinical Narratives, Sunghwan Sohn, Sean Murphy, James Masanz, Jean-Pierre Kocher, and Guergana Savova. In Proceedings of AMIA Annual Symposium, 2010.
Automatically extracting cancer disease characteristics from pathology reports into a Disease Knowledge Representation Model, Anni Coden, Guergana Savova, Igor Sominsky, Michael Tanenblatt, James Masanz, Karin Schuler, James Cooper, Wei Guan, and Piet C. de Groen. In Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI), 2009.
Towards Temporal Relation Discovery from the Clinical Narrative, Guergana Savova, Steven Bethard, Will Styler, James Martin, Martha Palmer, James Masanz, and Wayne Ward. In Proceedings of AMIA Annual Symposium, 2009.
System evaluation on a named entity corpus from clinical notes, Karin Kipper-Schuler, Vinod Kaggal, James Masanz, Philip Ogren, and Guergana Savova. In Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2008.
Towards Virtual Videography, Michael Gleicher and James Masanz. In ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2000.
My user ID (aranduil) comes from the name of a character I played as part of the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons. It is a name I created based on some Elvish names in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. I pronounce Aranduil as uh-RAN-du-ill. This name never appears in Tolkien's works to my knowledge.
My nickname, to those I played ultimate with, is Beacon.
This page is maintained by James Masanz and was last changed June 2010.
It needs to be properly updated though.