Maite Taboada
@mtaboada.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor of Linguistics @SFU. Discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, NLP, sentiment analysis, social media language, language of misinformation. she/her
On how not to do sentiment analysis:
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October 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
On how not to do sentiment analysis:
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Last week, I visited @citius.gal, the Research Centre on Intelligent Technologies at the @usc.gal, my annual visit as a member of CiTIUS' Scientific Advisory Board.
Always great to see how well the Centre is doing.
And always such a pleasure to enjoy beautiful Santiago de Compostela!
Always great to see how well the Centre is doing.
And always such a pleasure to enjoy beautiful Santiago de Compostela!
September 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Last week, I visited @citius.gal, the Research Centre on Intelligent Technologies at the @usc.gal, my annual visit as a member of CiTIUS' Scientific Advisory Board.
Always great to see how well the Centre is doing.
And always such a pleasure to enjoy beautiful Santiago de Compostela!
Always great to see how well the Centre is doing.
And always such a pleasure to enjoy beautiful Santiago de Compostela!
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Congratulations to @sfulinguistics.bsky.social professor, @mtaboada.bsky.social, a finalist for the SSHRC Insight Award! The Insight Award recognizes outstanding achievement arising from SSHRC-funded initiatives which contributed to knowledge and understanding about people, societies and the world.
September 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Congratulations to @sfulinguistics.bsky.social professor, @mtaboada.bsky.social, a finalist for the SSHRC Insight Award! The Insight Award recognizes outstanding achievement arising from SSHRC-funded initiatives which contributed to knowledge and understanding about people, societies and the world.
I'm a finalist for the 2025 #SSHRC Insight Impact Award! What an honour to be selected as finalist!
Thank you, @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca, for supporting social sciences and humanities research across Canada.
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Thank you, @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca, for supporting social sciences and humanities research across Canada.
sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/news/2025...
September 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I'm a finalist for the 2025 #SSHRC Insight Impact Award! What an honour to be selected as finalist!
Thank you, @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca, for supporting social sciences and humanities research across Canada.
sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/news/2025...
Thank you, @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca, for supporting social sciences and humanities research across Canada.
sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/news/2025...
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And we’re also thrilled to announce that the next RaAM Conference will be held in Pamplona, Spain! Save the dates!
August 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
And we’re also thrilled to announce that the next RaAM Conference will be held in Pamplona, Spain! Save the dates!
Amber Rynearson and I presented today at @raammetaphor.bsky.social, on our work trying to integrate different frameworks for metaphor identification.
What a great conference and so well run. Thank you, Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social and team!
What a great conference and so well run. Thank you, Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social and team!
August 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Amber Rynearson and I presented today at @raammetaphor.bsky.social, on our work trying to integrate different frameworks for metaphor identification.
What a great conference and so well run. Thank you, Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social and team!
What a great conference and so well run. Thank you, Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social and team!
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It has been a pleasure to present our research in #IPrA2025 at The University of Queensland (Australia).
Thanks, @cliff-goddard.bsky.social and Helen Bromhead (panel organizers), for your interest on our @uneduniv.bsky.social #EUPlainTech project (@ageinves.bsky.social) . 🤗
#PlainLanguage
#NLP
Thanks, @cliff-goddard.bsky.social and Helen Bromhead (panel organizers), for your interest on our @uneduniv.bsky.social #EUPlainTech project (@ageinves.bsky.social) . 🤗
#PlainLanguage
#NLP
June 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It has been a pleasure to present our research in #IPrA2025 at The University of Queensland (Australia).
Thanks, @cliff-goddard.bsky.social and Helen Bromhead (panel organizers), for your interest on our @uneduniv.bsky.social #EUPlainTech project (@ageinves.bsky.social) . 🤗
#PlainLanguage
#NLP
Thanks, @cliff-goddard.bsky.social and Helen Bromhead (panel organizers), for your interest on our @uneduniv.bsky.social #EUPlainTech project (@ageinves.bsky.social) . 🤗
#PlainLanguage
#NLP
IPrA in 2027 - Helsinki
June 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
IPrA in 2027 - Helsinki
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📢 19th International Pragmatics Conference
🗓️ June 22–27
🌏 Brisbane
🔗 pragmatics.international/page/Program...
M. Bermúdez, I. da Cunha (@uneduniv.bsky.social) & M. Taboada (@sfulinguistics.bsky.social) will present our #EUPlainTech project (@ageinves.bsky.social).
🗓️ June 22–27
🌏 Brisbane
🔗 pragmatics.international/page/Program...
M. Bermúdez, I. da Cunha (@uneduniv.bsky.social) & M. Taboada (@sfulinguistics.bsky.social) will present our #EUPlainTech project (@ageinves.bsky.social).
June 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM
📢 19th International Pragmatics Conference
🗓️ June 22–27
🌏 Brisbane
🔗 pragmatics.international/page/Program...
M. Bermúdez, I. da Cunha (@uneduniv.bsky.social) & M. Taboada (@sfulinguistics.bsky.social) will present our #EUPlainTech project (@ageinves.bsky.social).
🗓️ June 22–27
🌏 Brisbane
🔗 pragmatics.international/page/Program...
M. Bermúdez, I. da Cunha (@uneduniv.bsky.social) & M. Taboada (@sfulinguistics.bsky.social) will present our #EUPlainTech project (@ageinves.bsky.social).
Talk by Barbara Dancygier, one of the most prominent scholars in cognitive linguistics. And this one is about memes!
Join us via Zoom or at RCB 7402 on Thurs July 3rd, 12:30pm. More info: www.sfu.ca/linguistics/...
@sfufass.bsky.social @sfucmns.bsky.social @mtaboada.bsky.social @mglinguist.bsky.social
@sfufass.bsky.social @sfucmns.bsky.social @mtaboada.bsky.social @mglinguist.bsky.social
Constructions and stance: defining internet memes as a multimodal genre
"In this talk, I will focus in particular on two aspects of memetic grammar: the emergence of multimodal constructions and the expression and exchange of stance."
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June 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Talk by Barbara Dancygier, one of the most prominent scholars in cognitive linguistics. And this one is about memes!
Another paper a long time in the making:
3️⃣ years
🔟 authors
1️⃣ graduate seminar
9,789 podcast transcripts
1️⃣ paper: doi.org/10.1075/rs.2...
3️⃣ years
🔟 authors
1️⃣ graduate seminar
9,789 podcast transcripts
1️⃣ paper: doi.org/10.1075/rs.2...
June 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Another paper a long time in the making:
3️⃣ years
🔟 authors
1️⃣ graduate seminar
9,789 podcast transcripts
1️⃣ paper: doi.org/10.1075/rs.2...
3️⃣ years
🔟 authors
1️⃣ graduate seminar
9,789 podcast transcripts
1️⃣ paper: doi.org/10.1075/rs.2...
On how a paper took 10 years, 3 authors, and 3 continents
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The twists and turns of research: In conversation with Maite Taboada
Maite Taboada, Cliff Goddard, and Rada Trnavac recently published a paper that is over a decade in the making. While it isn’t unusual for research to take many years to come to fruition, the story beh...
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April 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
On how a paper took 10 years, 3 authors, and 3 continents
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Just out! Paper with @corpusling.bsky.social on sentiment analysis in news articles.
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March 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Just out! Paper with @corpusling.bsky.social on sentiment analysis in news articles.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New paper on who is quoted in the news.
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February 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
New paper on who is quoted in the news.
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If you are at the #LSA2025, come see me do the 5 Minute Linguist thing today, right after #WOTY
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January 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If you are at the #LSA2025, come see me do the 5 Minute Linguist thing today, right after #WOTY
web.cvent.com/event/40d941...
web.cvent.com/event/40d941...
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Hello Everyone! This is the BlueSky Account for the Systemic Functional Linguistics Interest Group (SFLIG). Looking forward to connecting with SFLIG members soon! Please like and share our BlueSky Account! Thank you! #sflinterest
December 7, 2024 at 6:38 AM
Hello Everyone! This is the BlueSky Account for the Systemic Functional Linguistics Interest Group (SFLIG). Looking forward to connecting with SFLIG members soon! Please like and share our BlueSky Account! Thank you! #sflinterest
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Distinguished Professor Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social presented research at the Centre for Information Technology (CiTIUS) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain: www.sfu.ca/linguistics/...
Maite Taboada presents text classification technique that detects toxicity in online comments
The goal of Taboada's work is to build a moderation platform to feature constructive comments and filter out toxicity.
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December 4, 2024 at 6:16 AM
Distinguished Professor Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social presented research at the Centre for Information Technology (CiTIUS) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain: www.sfu.ca/linguistics/...
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Discourse Studies has just published a really interesting set of papers on topic modelling and corpus linguistics, by @corpusling.bsky.social @mtaboada.bsky.social, Jaworska, Schweinberger, Murakami, Hunston and Thompson: journals.sagepub.com/home/DIS
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December 4, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Discourse Studies has just published a really interesting set of papers on topic modelling and corpus linguistics, by @corpusling.bsky.social @mtaboada.bsky.social, Jaworska, Schweinberger, Murakami, Hunston and Thompson: journals.sagepub.com/home/DIS
Come work at Simon Fraser University!
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics
Preference will be given to complete applications received by November 30, 2024
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics
Preference will be given to complete applications received by November 30, 2024
www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/a...
linguistlist.org/issues/35.27...
November 21, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Come work at Simon Fraser University!
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics
Preference will be given to complete applications received by November 30, 2024
www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/a...
linguistlist.org/issues/35.27...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics
Preference will be given to complete applications received by November 30, 2024
www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/a...
linguistlist.org/issues/35.27...