Information Retrieval & Search

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Marti Hearst

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

Recent Publications

Information Retrieval & Search news

A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square, 1989. Photograph: Jeff Widener/AP
If Google goes to China, will it tell the truth about Tiananmen Square?

The company’s controversial plan to relaunch search is a chance to stand up for truth in the age of disinformation, say Deirdre Mulligan and Daniel Griffin.

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Marti Hearst Named 2013 ACM Fellow
Professor Hearst was honored for her contributions to information retrieval and computational linguistics.
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Students’ Data Analysis Uncovers Hidden Trends in Yelp Reviews
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.
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Marti Hearst Predicts the Future of Search User Interfaces
The future of search will include speech input, social searching, and natural language queries, according to I School professor Marti Hearst.