Featured Research Projects:

Flamenco: Faceted Search and Navigation
Biotext: Bioscience Text Analysis

Courses

S08, F05, S04,S02,F00,S98:	Information Visualization & Presentation (i247)
F 07, F 05:	Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business (i141/290-1)
S 07,06,05,04,03,02,01,99:	User Interface Design and Development (i213)
F 07:	Research Seminar on Technology for Search & Social Media (i290-17)
S 07:	User Interface Design Tools (i290-17)
F 06, 04:	Applied Natural Language Processing (SIMS 256)
F 02, 01:	Foundations of Software Design (SIMS 255)
F 00,99,98,97:	Information Organization and Retrieval (SIMS 202)
F 99:	Seminar on Text Data Mining (SIMS 296A-4)
F 98:	Current Topics in Information Access (SIMS 296A-3)
F 97:	Informavores (SIMS 298)

Research

Publications

Recent papers of interest:

• Clustering versus Faceted Categories for Information Exploration, Hearst, Communications of the ACM 49(4), 2006.
• Design Recommendations for Hierarchical Faceted Search Interfaces, Hearst, ACM SIGIR Workshop on Faceted Search, August, 2006.
• Using the Web as an Implicit Training Set: Application to Structural Ambiguity Resolution, Nakov and Hearst, HLT-NAACL'05.
• What is Text Mining?
• Finding the Flow in Web Site Search, Hearst, Elliott, English, Sinha, Swearingen, and Yee, Communications of the ACM, 45 (9), September 2002.
• Statistical Profiles of Highly-Rated Web Sites, Ivory and Hearst. In ACM CHI 2002, March 2002.
• Multi-way Relation Classification: Application to Protein-Protein Interactions, Rosario and Hearst, HLT-NAACL'05
• Untangling Text Data Mining, Hearst ACL'99.
• User Interfaces and Visualization, a textbook chapter in Modern Information Retrieval, edited by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Company, 1999.

Current and Past Research Projects

• BioText: Bioscience Literature Analysis and Search

• FLAMENCO: Dynamic Use of Faceted Metadata in Search Interfaces

• WebTANGO: Automating Web Site Usability Assessment

• Information Visualization: Tutorials and techniques

• TextTiling: Multi-paragraph Discourse Segmentation

• TileBars: Visualization of Context and Structure in Search Results

• CHA-CHA: Exposing Intranet Structre in Web Search Results

• Cat-A-Cone: Visualizing Category Structure in Search Results

• Scatter/Gather: Clustering Interfaces for Search Results.
  

  I was for many years a researcher in the QCA group at Xerox PARC. I was a member of the BAIR group in graduate school.

Preslav Nakov	(PhD 2007)
Ping Yee	(PhD 2007)
Ariel Schwartz	(PhD 2007)
Barbara Rosario	(PhD 2005)
Cecilia Aragon	(PhD 2004)
Gaurav Bhalotia	(Masters 2003)
Melody Ivory	(PhD 2002)
Ame Elliott	(PhD 2002)
Mike Chen	(Masters 2002)
Wanda Pratt	(PhD 1999) (Unofficial advisor)

Rashmi Sinha

Emilia Stoica

Anna Divoli

(See project pages for undergraduates and other researchers.)

Awards

I am a recipient of a Google Reseach Award, an IBM Faculty Award, an NSF Career Grant, a Hellman Faculty Fund Award, an Okawa Foundation Fellowship, and two Excellence in Teaching Awards.

Editorial Activities

Current editorial board positions:

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWeb)

Dr. Marti Hearst is an associate 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 and visualization for search engines, computational linguistics, and empirical analysis of social media.

She 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 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, and was the program co-chair of HLT-NAACL '03 and SIGIR '99. She has received an NSF CAREER award, an IBM Faculty Award, a Google Research Award, an Okawa Foundation Fellowship, and two student-initiated Excellence in Teaching awards.

Mailing address

Prof. Marti Hearst
School of Information
102 South Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600

office phone: 510-642-8016
office fax: 510-642-5814

How to do good research:
How to Build an Economic Model in your Spare Time by Hal Varian.


How to succeed in graduate school by Marie desJardins.
(Submitted to ACM Crossroads, 1994, title originally was How to Be a Good Graduate Student Advisor)

How to advise university students: Advisor, Teacher, Role Model, Friend:
On being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering
Published by the National Academy Press.

How to be a pundit:
How to Make a Scene, Hal Varian, Jan 5, 2004.