0 Connections
Summary
Dr. Marti Hearst is a professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, with an affiliate appointment in the Computer Science Division. Her primary research interests are user interfaces for search engines, information visualization, natural language processing, and empirical analysis of social media. She has recently completed the first book on Search User Interfaces.
Prof. Hearst received BA, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and she was a Member of the Research Staff at Xerox PARC from 1994 to 1997.
Prof. Hearst has served on the Advisory Council of NSF's CISE Directorate and was co-chair of the Web Board for CACM. She is a member of the Usage Panel for the American Heritage Dictionary and is on the Edge.org panel of experts. Prof. Hearst is on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on the Web and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction and was formerly on the boards of Computational Linguistics, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, and IEEE Intelligent Systems.
Prof. Hearst has received an NSF CAREER award, an IBM Faculty Award, a Google Research Award, an Okawa Foundation Fellowship, two Excellence in Teaching Awards, and has been principle investigator for more than $3M in research grants.
Prof. Hearst was for many years a researcher in the QCA group at Xerox PARC, and before that a member of the BAIR group in graduate school.
| Current Institution | University of California, Berkeley |
| Current School | School of Information |
| Department | Computer Science |
| Disciplines | |
| Geographical Focus | |
| Current and Past Advisor(s) | Prof. Robert Wilensky, Prof. Michael Stonebraker |
| Address | 102 South Hall Berkeley California 94720-4600 United States Phone: 510-642-8016 |
Profile viewed 765 times
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D.,
Computer Science
(May 1994)
University of California, Berkeley
M.S.,
Computer Science
(May 1989)
Work Experience
Professor of Computer Science
School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
(2008 - Present)
Associate Professor of Computer Science
School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
(2002 - 2008)
Achievements
- NSF Grant, Principle Investigator ($580,000) (2006)
- NSF Grant, Principle Investigator ($840,000) (2003)
General
Publication Summary
Publications
Books
- Hearst, M. Search User Interfaces, Cambridge University Press, 2009
Book Chapters or Sections
- M. Hearst, "User interfaces and visualization," in Modern Information Retrieval, R. Baeza-Yates and B. Ribeiro-Neto, Eds., Harlow, England: ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., 1999, pp. 257-323.
Articles in Journals or Magazines
- M. Hearst, "What's up with tag clouds? (Guest Article)," Visual Business Intelligence Newsletter, pp. 5 pg, May 2008.
- M. Hearst, A. Divoli, H. Guturu, A. Ksikes, P. Nnakov, M. A. Wooldridge, and J. Ye, "BioText Search Engine: Beyond abstract search," Bioinformatics, vol. 23, no. 16, pp. 2196-2197, June 2007.
- M. Hearst, "Clustering versus faceted categories for information exploration," Communications of the ACM, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 59-61, April 2006.
- M. Hearst, A. Elliott, J. English, R. Sinha, K. Swearingen, and K. Yee, "Finding the flow in Web site search," Communications of the ACM, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 42-49, Sep. 2002.
Articles in Conference Proceedings
- M. Hearst, "UIs for faceted navigation: Recent advances and remaining open problems," in Proc. 2008 Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR '08), 2008, pp. 5 pg.
- M. Hearst, M. Hurst, and S. T. Dumais, "What should blog search look like? (Position Paper)," in 2008 ACM Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM '08), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2008, pp. 95-98.
- M. Kaisser, M. Hearst, and J. B. Lowe, "Improving search results quality by customizing summary lengths," in Proc. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-2008: HTL), Madison, WI: Omnipress Inc., 2008, pp. 701-709.
- P. Nakov and M. Hearst, "Solving relational similarity problems using the Web as a corpus," in Proc. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-2008: HTL), Madison, WI: Omnipress Inc., 2008, pp. 452-260.
- A. T. Fiore, L. S. Taylor, G. A. Mendelsohn, and M. Hearst, "Assessing attractiveness in online dating profiles," in Proc. 26th Annual SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008), M. Burnett, M. F. Costabile, T. Catarci, B. de Ruyter, D. Tan, M. Czerwinski, and A. Lund, Eds., Vol. 1, New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2008, pp. 797-806.
- A. Divoli, M. Hearst, and M. A. Wooldridge, "Evidence for showing gene/protein name suggestions in bioscience literature search interfaces," in Biocomputing 2008: Proc. Pacific Symp. (PSB '08), R. B. Altman, A. K. Dunker, L. Hunter, T. Murray, and T. E. Klein, Eds., Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2008, pp. 568-579.
- M. Hearst and D. Rosner, "Tag clouds: Data analysis tool or social signaller?," in Proc. 41st Hawaii Intl. Conf. on System Sciences (HICSS 2008), R. H. Sprague Jr., Ed., Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 2008, pp. 160-160.
- A. S. Schwartz, A. Divoli, and M. Hearst, "Multiple alignment of citation sentences with conditional random fields and posterior decoding," in Proc. 2007 Joint Conf. on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL-2007), ACL Anthology, Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2007, pp. 847-857.
- M. Hearst, A. Divoli, J. Ye, and M. Wooldridge, "Exploring the efficacy of caption search for bioscience journal search interfaces," in Proc. 2007 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing: Biological, Translational, and Clinical Language Processing (BioNLP '07), K. B. Cohen, D. Demner-Fushman, C. Friedman, L. Hirschman, and J. P. Pestian, Eds., Madison, WI: Omnipress, 2007, pp. 73-80.
- M. Boshernitsan, S. L. Graham, and M. Hearst, "Aligning development tools with the way programmers think about code changes," in Proc. 2007 SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2007, pp. 567-576.
- E. Stoica, M. Hearst, and M. Richardson, "Automating creation of hierarchical faceted metadata structures," in Proc. Human Language Technologies 2007: The Annual Conf. of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2007), ACL Anthology, Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2007, pp. 244-251.
- P. Nakov and M. Hearst, "Using the Web as an implicit training set: Application to structural ambiguity resolution," in Proc. of the Human Language Technology Conf. and Conf. on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Madison, WI: Omnipress Inc., 2005, pp. 835-842.
- K. Toutanova, D. Klein, C. D. Manning, and Y. Singer, "Feature-rich part-of-speech tagging with a cyclic dependency network," in Proc. 1st Human Language Technology Conf. of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting (HLT-NAACL 2003), M. Hearst and M. Ostendorf, Eds., Vol. 1, New Brunswick, NJ: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003, pp. 173-180.
- M. Hearst and J. O. Pedersen, "Reexamining the cluster hypothesis: Scatter/gather on retrieval results," in Proc. 19th Annual Intl. ACM SIGIR Conf. on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, New York, NY: ACM Press, 1996, pp. 76-84.
- M. Hearst, "TileBars: Visualization of term distribution information in full text information access," in Proc. Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Mosaic of Creativity, I. R. Katz, R. Mack, and L. Marks, Eds., New York, NY: ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1995, pp. 59-66.
- S. J. Russell and P. Norvig, "A modern, agent-oriented approach to AI instruction," in Proc. AAAI Fall Symp. on Improving Instruction of Introductory Artificial Intelligence, M. Hearst, Ed., Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 1994, pp. 15-18. [abstract]
- M. Hearst, "Multi-paragraph segmentation of expository text," in Proc. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1994, pp. 9-16.
- M. Hearst, "Automatic acquisition of hyponyms from large text corpora," in Proc. 14th Conf. on Computational Linguistics, Vol. 2, Morristown, NJ: Association for Computational Linguistics, 1992, pp. 539-545.
Technical Reports
- M. Y. Ivory and M. A. Hearst, "The State of the Art in Automated Usability Evaluation of User Interfaces," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/CSD-00-1105, June 2000. [abstract]
- D. D. Palmer and M. A. Hearst, "Adaptive Sentence Boundary Disambiguation," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/CSD-94-797, Feb. 1994. [abstract]
- M. A. Hearst, "Multi-Paragraph Segmentation of Expository Texts," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/CSD-94-790, Jan. 1994. [abstract]
- M. A. Hearst, "Contextualizing Retrieval of Full-Length Documents," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/CSD-94-789, Jan. 1994. [abstract]
- M. Stonebraker, M. Hearst, and S. Potamianos, "A Commentary on the POSTGRES Rules System," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/ERL M89/82, 1989.
Books
Search user interfaces"This book focuses on the human users of search engines and the tool they use to interact with them: the search user interface. The truly worldwide reach of the Web has brought with it a new... |
Other Publications
