Marti A. Hearst

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University of California, Berkeley

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2013

  • Robson, C., Hearst, M.A., Kau, C., and Pierce, J., Comparing the use of Social Networking and Traditional Media Channels for Promoting Citizen Science, Proceedings of CSCW 2013.  pdf
  • Nakov, P., and Hearst, M.A., Semantic Interpretation of Noun Compounds Using Verbal and Other Paraphrases, ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, special issue on Multiword Expressions, to appear.

2012

  • Muralidharan, A. and Hearst, M.A., Supporting Exploratory Text Analysis in Literature Study, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 27 (4), Dec 24, 2012.   html   pdf
  • Nakov, P., Divoli, A., and Hearst, M., Do Peers See More in a Paper than its Authors?, Advances in Bioinformatics, special issue on Literature Mining Solutions for Life Science Research, Volume 2012.   html  pdf
  • Muralidharan, A. and Hearst, M.A., Finding Literary Themes with Relevance Feedback, HCIR 2012, Oct 2012. pdf
  • Muralidharan, A. and Hearst, M.A., A sensemaking environment for literary text, Works in Progress, CHI 2012. pdf

2011

  • Hearst, M.A., 'Natural' Search User Interfaces, Communications of the ACM, November 2011, 54 (11), p. 60-67 . html , pdf
  • Muralidharan, A. and Hearst, M.A., WordSeer: Exploring Language Use in Literary Text, HCIR 2011, Oct 2011. pdf
  • Hearst, M. User Interfaces for Search, Chapter 2 of Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology behind Search (2nd Edition), Addison Wesley, 2011. official chapter pdf   unofficial chapter pdf, but includes the references   the book

2010

  • Divoli, A., Wooldridge, M., and Hearst, M.A. Full Text and Figure Display Improves Bioscience Literature Search, PLoS ONE 5(4): e9619, April 2010.   html
  • Hearst, M.A., Cohen, W., and Gosling, S. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2010), Washington, D.C., May 23–26, AAAI Press, 2010. Online Proceedings
  • Hearst, M.A. Setting the Right Conditions for Collaboration, GSA Intergovernmental Solutions Newsletter, special issue on Government by Collaboration, Spring 2010, p. 16-17.   pdf

2009

  • Hearst, M.A. Search User Interfaces, Cambridge University Press, September, 2009. Read it online.
  • Hearst, M.A. and Stoica, E., NLP Support for Faceted Navigation in Scholarly Collections, ACL 2009 Workshop on Text and Citation Analysis for Scholarly Digital libraries (NLPIR4DL), 2009.   pdf
  • Agichtein, E., Hearst, M.A., Soboroff, I., The Search and Social Media Workshop at SIGIR 2009, SIGIR Forum 43(2), 2009.   pdf
  • Hearst, M.A. The Decline of Text, essay in response the question "What change will be wrought by technology?", Jan 1, 2009 at edge.org.  html
  • Hearst, M.A. and Dumais, S. Blogging Together: An Examination of Group Blogs, 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2009), San Jose, CA 2009.  pdf
  • Nagarajan, M. and Hearst, M.A., An Examination of Language Use in Online Dating Profiles, 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2009), San Jose, CA 2009.  pdf

2008

  • Hearst, M.A., Hurst, M., and Dumais, S. T., What Should Blog Search Look Like? Position paper in the Search and Social Media Workshop, CIKM 2008.   pdf
  • Hearst, M. UIs for Faceted Navigation: Recent Advances and Remaining Open Problems. In the Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, HCIR 2008, Redmond, WA. pdf
  • Hearst, M.A., and Rosner, D., Tag Clouds: Data Analysis Tool or Social Signaller? In HICSS 2008, Social Spaces minitrack.   pdf
      (A more informal version: Hearst, M. What's up with Tag Clouds? Invited contribution, Visual Business Intelligence Newsletter, PerceptualEdge.org, May 2008. pdf)
  • Divoli, A., Hearst, M.A., Wooldridge, M.A., Evidence for Showing Gene/Protein Name Suggestions in Bioscience Literature Search Interfaces, in Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), 2008.  pdf
  • Fiore, A.T., Taylor, L.S., Mendelsohn, G.A., and Hearst, M.A., Assessing Attractiveness in Online Dating Profiles, in the Proceedings of CHI, 2008. pdf
  • Nakov, P., and Hearst, M.A., Solving Relational Similarity Problems Using the Web as a Corpus, in the Proceedings of ACL/HLT, 2008. pdf
  • Kaisser, M., Hearst, M.A., and Lowe, J.B., Improving Search Results Quality by Customizing Summary Lengths, in the Proceedings of ACL/HLT, 2008. pdf

2007

  • Hearst, Divoli, Guturu, Ksikes, Nakov, Wooldridge, and Ye, BioText Search Engine: beyond abstract search, Bioinformatics, June, 2007,   pdf
  • Hearst, M.A., Divoli, A., Wooldridge, M.A, and Ye, J., Exploring the efficacy of caption search for bioscience journal search interfaces, in the Proceedings of BioNLP 2007, ACL 2007 Workshop.   pdf
  • Schwartz, A., Divoli, A., and Hearst, M.A., Multiple Alignment of Citation Sentences with Conditional Random Fields and Posterior Decoding in the Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL-2007.   pdf
  • Stoica, E., Hearst, M., and Richardson, M., Automating Creation of Hierarchical Faceted Metadata Structures, in the Proceedings of NAACL/HLT 2007, Rochester, NY, April 2007.   pdf
  • Boshernitsan, M., Graham, S.L., and Hearst, M., Aligning Development Tools with the Way Programmers Think About Code Changes, in the Proceedings of CHI 2007, San Jose, April 2007.   pdf

2006

  • Hearst, M. Clustering versus Faceted Categories for Information Exploration, in Communications of the ACM 49(4), April, 2006. pdf
  • Hearst, M., Design Recommendations for Hierarchical Faceted Search Interfaces, in the ACM SIGIR Workshop on Faceted Search, August, 2006. pdf
  • Nakov, P. and Hearst, M., Using Verbs to Characterize Noun-Noun Relations, in the Proceedings of AIMSA 2006, Bulgaria, September 2006. pdf
  • Yee, K-P., Wagner, D., Hearst, M., and Bellovin, S. Prerendered User Interfaces for High-Assurance Electronic Voting. In Proceedings of the USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop, Vancouver, July, 2006. pdf
  • Stoica, E., and Hearst, M. Predicting Gene Functions from Text Using a Cross-Species Approach, in the 2006 Pacific Biocomputing Symposium PSB'06), Maui, HI.   pdf
  • Dhamija, R., Tygar, J. D., and Hearst, M., Why Phishing Works, in the Proceedings of CHI 2006, Montreal, April 2006. pdf
  • Hearst, M., Information Visualization for Peer Patent Examination, Peer2Patent Advisory Workshop, December 7, 2006.   pdf

2005

  • Rosario, B, and Hearst, M. Multi-way Relation Classification: Application to Protein-Protein Interactions, in HLT/EMNLP'05, Vancouver, 2005.   pdf
  • Nakov, P., and Hearst, M., Using the Web as an Implicit Training Set: Application to Structural Ambiguity Resolution, in HLT/EMNLP'05, Vancouver, 2005. pdf
  • Nakov, P.. and Hearst, M. A Study of Using Search Engine Page Hits as a Proxy for n-gram Frequencies, in RANLP'05, Borovets, Bulgaria, 2005  pdf
  • Aragon, C. and Hearst, M., Improving Aviation Safety with Information Visualization: A Flight Simulation Study, in the Proceedings of CHI 2005, Portland, OR, April 2005. pdf
  • Snydal, J. and Hearst, M. ImproViz: Visual Explorations of Jazz Improvizations, in the Proceedings of CHI 2005 Conference Companion, Portland, OR, April 2005. pdf
  • Nakov, P., and Hearst, M. Search Engine Statistics Beyond the n-gram: Application to Noun Compound Bracketing, in the Proceedings of CoNLL-2005, Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005. pdf
  • Hearst, M. Teaching Applied Natural Language Processing: Triumphs and Tribulations, ACL 2005 Workshop on Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching Natural Language Processing And Computational Linguistics, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005. pdf
  • Nakov, P., Schwartz, A., Wolf, B, and Hearst, M. Scaling Up BioNLP: Application of a Text Annotation Architecture to Noun Compound Bracketing, in ACL/ISMB BioLINK SIG: Linking Literature, Information and Knowledge for Biology, Detroit, MI, June 2005. pdf
  • Nakov,P., Schwartz, A., Wolf, B., Hearst, M., Supporting Annotation Layers for Natural Language Processing, in the ACL 2005 Poster/Demo Track, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005. pdf
  • Hearst, M., The HCI Emphasis at UC Berkeley's SIMS, CHI 2005 workshop on Graduate Education in Human-Computer Interaction, Portland, OR, April 2005. pdf
  • Yee, K-P, and Hearst, M. Content-Centered Discussion Mapping, Online Deliberation 2005 / DIAC-2005, Palo Alto, CA, June 2005. pdf
  • Nakov, P, Schwartz, A. S., Stoica, E., Hearst, M., BioText Team Experiments for the TREC 2004 Genomics Track Proceedings of TREC 2004 Gaithersburg, MD, 2005. pdf

2004

  • Rosario, B. and Hearst, M., Classifying Semantic Relations in Bioscience Text, in the Proceedings of ACL 2004.   pdf
  • Nakov, P., Schwartz, A., and Hearst, M., Citances: Citation Sentences for Semantic Analysis of Bioscience Text, in the SIGIR'04 Workshop on Search and Discovery in Bioinformatics.   pdf
  • Oliver, D. Bhalotia, G., Schwartz, A. S., Altman, B., Hearst, M. Tools for Loading MEDLINE into a Local Relational Database, BMC Bioinformatics, 5 (146), Oct 2004. pdf
  • Stoica, E. and Hearst, M. Nearly-Automated Metadata Hierarchy Creation, in the Companion Proceedings of HLT-NAACL'04, Boston, May 2004. pdf
  • Bhalotia, G., Nakov, P., Schwartz, A.S., Hearst, M.A., BioText Team Report for the TREC 2003 Genomics Track, Proceedings of TREC 2003, Gaithersburg, MD, 2004. pdf

2003

  • Hearst, M. and Ostendorf, M. (Eds.) The Proceedings of HLT-NAACL'03, Edmonton, Canada, May 2003. website
  • Nakov, P. and Hearst, M., Category-based Pseudowords, in the Companion Volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL'03, May 2003. pdf
  • Yee, K-P., Swearingen, K., Li, K., and Hearst, M., Faceted Metadata for Image Search and Browsing, in CHI 2003. pdf
  • Schwartz, A., and Hearst, M., A Simple Algorithm for Identifying Abbreviation Definitions in Biomedical Text, in the Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 2003) Kauai, Jan 2003. pdf
  • What is Text Mining? Unpublished essay, Oct 2003. html

2002

  • Hearst, M., Elliott, A., English, J., Sinha, R., Swearingen, K., and Yee, P., Finding the Flow in Web Site Search, Communications of the ACM, 45 (9), September 2002, pp.42-49. pdf
  • Rosario, B, Hearst, M., and Fillmore, C., The Descent of Hierarchy, and Selection in Relational Semantics, in the Proceedings of ACL '02, Philadelphia, PA, July 2002. pdf  ps
  • Ivory, M. and Hearst, M. Improving Web Site Design in IEEE Internet Computing, 6 (2), March/April 2002, 56-63 2002. pdf 
  • Ivory, M. and Hearst, M. Statistical Profiles of Highly-Rated Web Sites in CHI 2002, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2002. pdf 
  • Pevzner, L., and Hearst, M., A Critique and Improvement of an Evaluation Metric for Text Segmentation, Computational Linguistics,, 28 (1), March 2002, pp. 19-36. pdf  ps
  • Elliott, A., and Hearst, M., A Comparison of the Affordances of a Digital Desk and Tablet for Architectural Image Use Tasks, in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 56 (2), February 2002, 173-197. pdf  ps

2001

  • Ivory, M., Sinha, R., and Hearst, M. Empirically Validated Web Page Design Metrics in CHI 2001, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2001. html ps pdf 
  • Rosario, B. and Hearst, M., Classifying the Semantic Relations in Noun Compounds via a Domain-Specific Lexical Hierarchy, in the Proceedings of EMNLP '01, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2001.   pdf  ps
  • Yee, K-P, Fisher, D., Dhamija, R., and Hearst, M., Animated Exploration of Graphs with Radial Layout, in IEEE Infovis Symposium, San Diego, 2001. word ps
  • Ivory, M. and Hearst, M., The State of the Art in Automated Usability Evaluation of User Interfaces, in ACM Computing Surveys, 33 (4), December 2001, pp. 173-197. pdf  (47 pages long)
  • Sinha, R., Hearst, M., Ivory, M, and Draisin, M. Content or Graphics? An Empirical Analysis of Criteria for Award-Winning Websites, in the Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Human Factors and the Web, June 2001 html

2000

  • Ivory, M., Sinha, R., and Hearst, M. Preliminary Findings on Quantitative Measures for Distinguishing Highly Rated Information-Centric Web Pages in the Proceedings of 6th Conference on Human Factors and the Web, (HFWeb), Austin, Texas, 2000. html ps pdf 
  • Elliott, A. and Hearst, M. How Large Should a Digital Desk Be? Qualitative Results of a Comparative Study in the Proceedings of CHI'00, Conference Companion, The Hague, Netherlands, 2000. pdf (71K)
  • Hearst, M., Next Generation Web Search: Setting Our Sites, In IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Special issue on Next Generation Web Search, Luis Gravano (Ed.), September 2000. pdf   html
  • Hearst, M., Kukich, K., Hirschman, L., Breck, E., Light, M., Burge,J., Ferro, L., Landauer, T. K., Laham, D., and Foltz, P. W., The Debate on Automated Essay Grading, in IEEE Intelligent Systems (Sept/Oct 2000) pdf 

1999

  • Hearst, M. Untangling Text Data Mining, in the Proceedings of ACL'99: the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Maryland, June 20-26, 1999 (invited paper). html   pdf
  • Hearst, M. User Interfaces and Visualization, in Modern Information Retrieval edited by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Company, 1999. html
  • Chen, M., Hearst, M., Hong, J., and Lin, J. Cha-Cha: A System for Organizing Intranet Search Results in the Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and SYSTEMS (USITS), Boulder, CO, October 11-14, 1999. html pdf ps (gz) (670K)
  • Pratt, W., Hearst, M, and Fagan, L. A Knowledge-Based Approach to Organizing Retrieved Documents. AAAI-99: Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Orlando, Florida, 1999. pdf  (104K)
  • Hearst, M.,  The Use of Categories and Clusters for Organizing Retrieval Results, in Natural Language Information Retrieval, Strzalkowski (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. pdf  (500K) ps (7.9M)
  • Glaser, D. and Hearst, M. Space Series: Simultaneous display of spatial and temporal data. In the proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (late-breaking results), October 1999. html pdf  (160K)
  • Hearst, M. When Information Technology Goes Social. IEEE Intelligent Systems (Jan/Feb 1999) as part of a suite of three essays by Hearst, M., Grudin, J., and Wellman, B., The changing relationship between information technology and society. pdf  (260K)

1998

  • Hearst, M.A., Innovations in electronic academic publishing, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 13 (1), Jan-Feb, 1998, as part of a suite of four essays by Hearst, Wellman & Minton, Sim, and Lesk. pdf  (1.1M)
  • Hearst, M., ``Automated Discovery of WordNet Relations,'' in WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database, Christiane Fellbaum (ed.), MIT Press, 1998.   pdf

1997

  • Hearst, M. Interfaces for Searching the Web Scientific American, March 1997. html
  • Hearst, M. and Karadi, C. Cat-a-Cone: An Interactive Interface for Specifying Searches and Viewing Retrieval Results using a Large Category Hierarchy, Proceedings of the 20th Annual International ACM/SIGIR Conference , Philadelphia, PA, July 1997. pdf  ps (7.8M) ps (gz) html
  • Hearst, M. and Karadi, C. Searching and Browsing Text Collections with Large Category Hierarchies, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Conference Companion, Atlanta, GA, March 1997. html (at sigchi)
  • Hearst, M., TextTiling: Segmenting Text into Multi-Paragraph Subtopic Passages, Computational Linguistics, 23 (1), pp. 33-64, March 1997.   pdf   ps (gz)
  • Palmer, D., and Hearst, M., Adaptive Multilingual Sentence Boundary Disambiguation, Computational Linguistics, 23 (2), 241-267, June 1997. pdf   ps (1.3M)

1996

  • Hearst, M. and Pedersen, P. Reexamining the Cluster Hypothesis: Scatter/Gather on Retrieval Results, Proceedings of 19th Annual International ACM/SIGIR Conference, Zurich, 1996. pdf  ps (1.3M) ps (gz) html
  • Sahami, M., Hearst, M., and Saund, E., Applying the Multiple Cause Mixture Model to Text Categorization, in the Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Bari (Italy), July 3-6th, 1996. pdf
  • Hearst, M. Research in Support of Digital Libraries at Xerox PARC. Part I: The Changing Social Roles of Documents, D-Lib Magazine, May 1996. html (at CNRI)
  • Hearst, M., Kopec, G., and Brotsky, D. Research in Support of Digital Libraries at Xerox PARC. Part II: Digital and Paper Documents, D-Lib Magazine, June 1996. html (at CNRI)
  • Hearst, M., Improving Full-Text Precision on Short Queries using Simple Constraints, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval (SDAIR), Las Vegas, NV, April 1996. pdf  ps (1.3M) ps (gz)
  • Hearst, M., Pedersen, J., Pirolli, P., Schütze, H., Grefenstette, G. and Hull, D., Four TREC-4 Tracks: the Xerox Site Report, Proceedings of the Fourth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-4), Donna Harman (ed.), Nov 1-3, Arlington, VA, 1996. pdf   ps (gz)

1995

  • Hearst, M., Pedersen, J., and Karger, D., Scatter/Gather as a Tool for the Analysis of Retrieval Results, Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on AI Applications in Knowledge Navigation, Cambridge, MA, November 1995, ps (2.2M) ps (gz)
  • Hearst, M. TileBars: Visualization of Term Distribution Information in Full Text Information Access, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Denver, CO, 1995. pdf  ps (6.5M) ps (gz) html (at sigchi)

1994

  • Hearst, M. Using Categories to Provide Context for Full-Text Retrieval Results, Proceedings of RIAO,Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval Systems and Management, Rockefeller University, NY, NY, Oct 1994. pdf  ps (3M) ps (gz)
  • Palmer, D., and Hearst, M. Adaptive Sentence Boundary Disambiguation, Proceedings of the Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Stuttgart, Germany, Oct 1994. pdf  ps (133K) ps (gz)
  • Hearst, M. Multi-Paragraph Segmentation of Expository Text, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Las Cruces, NM, June 1994. pdf  ps (200K) ps (gz) html
  • Hearst, M. Context and Structure in Automated Full-Text Information Access, PhD Thesis, UC Berkeley Computer Science Technical Report number UCB/CSD-94/836, April 1994. pdf ps (10M) ps (gz)

1993

  • Hearst, M. and Plaunt, C. Subtopic Structuring for Full-Length Document Access, Proceedings of the 16th Annual International ACM/SIGIR Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. 1993. pdf  ps (232K) ps (gz) html
  • Resnik, P., and Hearst, M., Structural ambiguity and conceptual relations, Proceedings of the Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Ohio State University, June 22, 1993. pdf
  • Hearst, M. and Schütze, H. Customizing a Lexicon to Better Suit a Computational Task, Proceedings of the ACL SIGLEX Workshop on Lexical Acquisition, Columbus, OH. June 1993.
    (A revised version appears in Corpus Processing for Lexical Acquisition, Bran Boguraev and James Pustejovsky (eds.), MIT Press, 1996.) pdf  ps (290K) ps (gz)

1992

  • Hearst, M. Automatic Acquisition of Hyponyms from Large Text Corpora, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Nantes, France, July 1992. pdf  ps (170K) ps (gz)
  • Hearst, M. Direction-Based Text Interpretation as an Information Access Refinement, in Text-Based Intelligent Systems, Paul Jacobs (Ed.), Lawrence Erlbaum, 1992. pdf  ps

1991

  • Hearst, M. Noun Homograph Disambiguation using Local Context in Large Text Corpora, Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference of the UW Centre for the New OED and Text Research: Using Corpora, Oxford, 1991. pdf  ps (234K)

1990

  • Hearst, M., A Hybrid Approach to Restricted Text Interpretation, AAAI Spring Symposium on Text Based Intelligent Systems, Stanford University, March 1990. pdf