Marti Hearst

Below the Line, Associate Professor

Research Areas

• information retrieval, user interfaces, computational linguistics

Research Centers

• Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM)
• Center for Intelligent Systems (CIS)

Biography

She received the B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and was a member of the Research Staff at Xerox PARC from 1994 to 1997. Prof. Hearst is on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Information Systems and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction and was formerly on the boards of Computational Linguistics and IEEE Intelligent Systems, and was the program co-chair of HLT-NAACL '03 and SIGIR '99. She has received an NSF CAREER award, an IBM Faculty Award, an Okawa Foundation Fellowship, and two student-initiated Excellence in Teaching awards.

Selected Publications

• M. Hearst, "Clustering versus faceted categories for information exploration," Communications of the ACM, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 59-61, April 2006.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.