Marti A. Hearst

Research

Current and Past Projects:

• Social Media: Blogs, Tags, and Online Personals
• FLAMENCO: Applying Faceted Metadata to Search Interfaces
• BioText: Bioscience Literature Analysis and Search
• Semantic Relations: Using Web Counts, Lexico-Syntactic Patterns, and Lexical Hierarchies to Detect Relationships in Language
• Text Segmentation: Abbreviation Definition Recognition, Sentence Boundary Disambiguation, Discourse Segmentation
• Information Visualization: Tutorials and Research on Visualizing Text and Other Abstract Data
• Pvote: Improving the Usability of Electronic Voting Machines
• Text Mining: Setting an Agenda for Research
• WebTANGO: Automating Web Site Usability Assessment
• TextTiling: Multi-paragraph Discourse Segmentation
• TileBars: Visualization of Context and Structure in Search Results
• Cha-Cha Search: Exposing Intranet Structure in Web Search Results
• Scatter/Gather: Clustering Interface for Search Results

Current PhD Students:

• Aditi Muralidharan
• Christine Robson

Graduated Students:

• 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)

Postdoctoral Researchers:

• Rashmi Sinha
• Emilia Stoica
• Anna Divoli

Advice

By Matt Might:

• The illustrated guide to a PhD
• A PhD Proposal is a contract
• 10 easy ways to fail a PhD

By Marie desJardins, first published in 1995 and recently reprinted:

• How to succeed in graduate school, part I; How to succeed in graduate school, part II