2026 Marti A. Hearst: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	75	1373	1330	715	689	251	40472

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Computer Science

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689

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40472

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - ACM Fellow For contributions to information retrieval and computational linguistics.
2000 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Marti A. Hearst is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with notable contributions in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Molecular Biology, Human-Computer Interaction, and Literature and Literary Theory.

Their work covers a range of topics, including:

Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Data Visualization and Analytics
Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
Text Readability and Simplification
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Speech and Dialogue Systems

Marti A. Hearst's recent publications include:

"<scp>SummaC</scp>: Re-Visiting NLI-based Models for Inconsistency Detection in Summarization" (2022), published in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
"Inclusive data visualization for people with disabilities" (2021), published in interactions
"Striking a Balance: Reader Takeaways and Preferences when Integrating Text and Charts" (2022), published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
"Lux" (2021), published in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
"<scp>Paper Plain</scp>: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing" (2023), published in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

Andrew Head
Kyle Lo
Daniel S. Weld
Philippe Laban
Chase Stokes

Their works have appeared predominantly in these venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Communications of the ACM
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
interactions

Marti A. Hearst has received recognition including:

ACM Fellow (2013) for contributions to information retrieval and computational linguistics
Hellman Fellow (2000)

Best Publications

Support vector machines

M.A. Hearst;S.T. Dumais;E. Osman;J. Platt

7011
Citations
Automatic acquisition of hyponyms from large text corpora

Marti A. Hearst

4819
Citations
Why phishing works

Rachna Dhamija;J. D. Tygar;Marti Hearst

2053
Citations
TextTiling: segmenting text into multi-paragraph subtopic passages

Marti A. Hearst

1880
Citations
Untangling Text Data Mining

Marti A. Hearst

1499
Citations
Faceted metadata for image search and browsing

Ka-Ping Yee;Kirsten Swearingen;Kevin Li;Marti Hearst

1397
Citations
The state of the art in automating usability evaluation of user interfaces

Melody Y. Ivory;Marti A Hearst

1313
Citations
Reexamining the cluster hypothesis: scatter/gather on retrieval results

Marti A. Hearst;Jan O. Pedersen

1307
Citations
Search User Interfaces

Marti A. Hearst

1071
Citations
TileBars: visualization of term distribution information in full text information access

Marti A. Hearst

959
Citations
MULTI-PARAGRAPH SEGMENTATION EXPOSITORY TEXT

Marti A. Hearst

912
Citations
A simple algorithm for identifying abbreviation definitions in biomedical text.

Ariel S. Schwartz;Marti A. Hearst

724
Citations
Multi-Paragraph Segmentation of Expository Text

Marti A. Hearst

665
Citations
Automated Discovery of WordNet Relations

Marti A. Hearst

590
Citations
A critique and improvement of an evaluation metric for text segmentation

Lev Pevzner;Marti A. Hearst

581
Citations
Clustering versus faceted categories for information exploration

Marti A. Hearst

578
Citations
Subtopic structuring for full-length document access

Marti A. Hearst;Christian Plaunt

555
Citations
Finding the flow in web site search

Marti Hearst;Ame Elliott;Jennifer English;Rashmi Sinha

496
Citations
Animated exploration of dynamic graphs with radial layout

Ka-Ping Yee;D. Fisher;R. Dhamija;M. Hearst

395
Citations
Intelligent Connections: Battling with GA-Joe.

Marti A. Hearst

382
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Preslav Nakov Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Jan O. Pedersen Microsoft (United States)

Armando Fox University of California, Berkeley

Björn Hartmann University of California, Berkeley

Gregory Grefenstette Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

Jaap Kamps University of Amsterdam

Hinrich Schütze Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Eric Saund IEEE-USA

Susan T. Dumais Microsoft (United States)

Michelene T. H. Chi Arizona State University

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