James Gardner is a Computer Science graduate student at Emory University. His thesis advisor is Li Xiong. His main interests are in Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining and generally anything that utilizes probability models to solve interesting problems.

Fall 2009 - CS224: Mathematical Foundation of Computer Science. Syllabus.
Fall 2008 - CS224: Mathematical Foundation of Computer Science with James Lu.

Topics

Machine learning, semantics, natural language processing, sequence labeling, ontologies and their application to collaboration, education, and hyperlinking on the semantic web.

Projects

Health Information DE-identification (HIDE), a framework for publishing and sharing health data while preserving data privacy.
NNexus, the automatic linking component of PlanetMath.org.

Publications

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James Gardner and Li Xiong. Automatic Link Detection: A Sequence Labeling Approach. To appear in International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2009

Li Xiong, James Gardner, Pawel Jurczyk, James J. Lu. Privacy Preserving Information Discovery on EHRs. To appear as a book chapter in Information Discovery on EHRs, 2009

James Gardner and Li Xiong. An integrated framework for de-identifying unstructured medical data. Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), 2009 (in press).

James Gardner, Aaron Krowne and Li Xiong. NNexus: An Automatic Linker for Collaborative Web-Based Corpora (demo track). 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), March, 2009.

James Gardner, Kanwei Li, Li Xiong and James J. Lu. HIDE: Heterogeneous Information DE-identification (demo track). 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), March, 2009.

James Gardner, Aaron Krowne, Li Xiong, NNexus: An Automatic Linker for Collaborative Web-Based Corpora. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 829-839, June 2009, doi:10.1109/TKDE.2008.136

James Gardner and Li Xiong. HIDE: Towards an Integrated Framework for Health Information DE-identification. 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2008.

James Gardner, Aaron Krowne and Li Xiong. NNexus: Towards an automatic linker for a massively-distributed collaborative corpus. International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, 2006 (CollaborateCom 2006). IEEE Xplore

James Gardner, Anant Godbole, Alberto Teguia, Annalies Vuong, Nathaniel Watson and Carl Yerger. Domination Cover Pebbling: Graph Families. Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing. 64 (2008), 255--271. pdf.

External Reviewer: CIKM 2009 (The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)

M.S., 2007, Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Concentration in Information Retrieval and Data Mining.

B.S. (Honors), 2005, Mathematics, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
Concentration in Mathematical Sciences with primary studies in Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Probability.

B.S., 2005, Computer Science, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
Concentration in Computer Science with primary interests in Algorithms and High-Performance Computing.