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

Using AI/Machine Learning to Extract Data from Japanese American Confinement Records
Situating Web Searching in Data Engineering: Admissions, Extensions, Repairs, and Ownership

 

 
Search quality complaints and imaginary repair: Control in articulations of Google Search
Google Scholar – Platforming the scholarly economy
Ideology and Libraries: California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan 1945-1952
Ideology and Libraries: California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan, 1945–1952
Rescripting Search to Respect the Right to Truth
Systems and methods for detecting and locating unsecured sensors in a network
The Promises and Limitations of Blockchain: Taking Stock and Lessons Learned
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Search User Interfaces
New book by I School professor Marti Hearst focuses on search engines' user interfaces and how people use them.
Search before grep.

Information Retrieval & Search news

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Ph.D. Student Emma Lurie Compares Platform Research API Requirements
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Jeff MacKie-Mason: “The Internet Archive Is a Library”
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David Bamman Awarded Mellon Grant for Text/Data Mining Project with UC Berkeley Library
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UC Berkeley Researchers Use Google Search Data To Examine Interest in At-Home Abortions

Berkeley researchers, including Prof. Coye Cheshire, used Google search data to explore interest in at-home abortion and assess its implications.

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Hany Farid: Google Is Not Cracking Down on the Most Dangerous Drug in America
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Joshua Blumenstock: Machine Learning Can Help Get COVID-19 Aid To Those Who Need It Most

As the COVID-19 crisis continues, hundreds of millions of citizens of low-income countries are being left without work or income. Assistant Professor Joshua Blumenstock discusses new methods to combat this.

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David Bamman Awarded NSF Career Award

Assistant Professor David Bamman was honored for for his research designing computational methods for natural language processing for fiction.

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danah boyd Warns Against Disinformation in “Data Voids”
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Alumna Krista Mar Seeks Fair Representation in the 2020 Census
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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.