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:
doi.org/10.1007/s001...
doi.org/10.1007/s001...
October 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
On how not to do sentiment analysis:
doi.org/10.1007/s001...
doi.org/10.1007/s001...
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!
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...
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...
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!
IPrA in 2027 - Helsinki
June 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
IPrA in 2027 - Helsinki
E.g., here they are compared to other spoken registers. The mean factor scores are similar, but the spread for podcasts (purple box) is huge.
June 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
E.g., here they are compared to other spoken registers. The mean factor scores are similar, but the spread for podcasts (purple box) is huge.
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...
The paper:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
April 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The paper:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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...
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...
3️⃣ The choice between indirect and direct speech may have to do with principles of information structure: how given or new the source is and the informational weight of the quoted content
February 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
3️⃣ The choice between indirect and direct speech may have to do with principles of information structure: how given or new the source is and the informational weight of the quoted content
2️⃣ Indirect speech is much more frequent than direct speech
February 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
2️⃣ Indirect speech is much more frequent than direct speech
But I also find out other cool things about the linguistics of quoting:
1️⃣ "say" is by far the most frequent quotative verb
1️⃣ "say" is by far the most frequent quotative verb
February 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
But I also find out other cool things about the linguistics of quoting:
1️⃣ "say" is by far the most frequent quotative verb
1️⃣ "say" is by far the most frequent quotative verb
I analyze a full years' worth of news stories and tell you what you already probably know: women are quoted way less than men (and non-binary people are absent)
February 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I analyze a full years' worth of news stories and tell you what you already probably know: women are quoted way less than men (and non-binary people are absent)
New paper on who is quoted in the news.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
February 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
New paper on who is quoted in the news.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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...
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...
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...
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...