Information Retrieval & Search

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Marti Hearst

Interim Dean; Professor

Human-computer interaction, information visualization, computational linguistics, search and information retrieval, improving MOOCs and online education

Recent Publications

UIs for Faceted Navigation: Recent Advances and Remaining Open Problems

October 23, 2008

Tag Clouds: Data Analysis Tool or Social Signaller?

January 8, 2008

Indexing and Searching Tera-Scale Grid-Based Digital Libraries

November 15, 2006

Time Period Directories: A Metadata Infrastructure for placing Events in Temporal and Geographic Context

November 1, 2006

Analysis Architecture of a Mobile Sports Replay System (IEEE)

April 18, 2006

Information Retrieval and Digital Library Applications: Minitrack Introduction

January 1, 2006

Grid-based Digital Libraries and Cheshire3

January 1, 2006

Probabilistic Retrieval, Component Fusion, and Blind Feedback for XML Retrieval

January 1, 2006

Information Retrieval & Search news

Marti Hearst Named 2013 ACM Fellow

December 11, 2013

Professor Hearst was honored for her contributions to information retrieval and computational linguistics.

Students’ Data Analysis Uncovers Hidden Trends in Yelp Reviews

October 4, 2013

A new student research project analyzes the text of Yelp restaurant reviews to automatically reveal the underlying topics discussed by the reviewers — and predict the rating the restaurant would have received based on each individual topic.

Marti Hearst Predicts the Future of Search User Interfaces

November 3, 2011

The future of search will include speech input, social searching, and natural language queries, according to I School professor Marti Hearst.