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
From 15–17 June 2026, the RaAM community gathered in the beautiful city of Pavia, Italy, for an inspiring three-day seminar hosted by IUSS Pavia. Follow this thread for some highlights from the 9th RaAM Specialised Seminar: Metaphor in Vitro: From Texts to Brains! ✨
We hope this will be useful for corpus compilers
IJCL@ijcl.bsky.social · 2mo agoOUT NOW: @corpusling.bsky.social and Kelvin K. H. Lee introduce the Document Similarity tool, which gives corpus compilers more control over the deduplication process. Reported case studies demonstrate how consequential deduplication is to corpus-based discourse research. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
For the last few months, I've been working with my new colleague at SFU @markar.bsky.social, students @yvesfrtl.bsky.social, @adampodoxin.bsky.social, Ty Brassington, and Roman Grundkiewicz of Microsoft, trying to understand the quality of machine translation for literary texts. ...
yvesfrtl.bsky.social@yvesfrtl.bsky.social · last mo.📚 AI-written stories get attention, but AI-translated literature is quietly shaping how readers experience the author So what gets lost ⁉️ 🤖 AI translation into English is readable and often ‘fine’ ✍️ But human translation is valued more ‼️Both vary in quality BUT AI more, even within a single book
A lot of people focus on AI-written fiction, but what about AI literary translation? 📚 We find that AI translation can be readable.. ‼️BUT it also flattens characters' voices 🧙and is less immersive 🫣 than published human translations. Below is my favorite quote from a reader 📖 lait.cs.sfu.ca
yvesfrtl.bsky.social@yvesfrtl.bsky.social · last mo.📚 AI-written stories get attention, but AI-translated literature is quietly shaping how readers experience the author So what gets lost ⁉️ 🤖 AI translation into English is readable and often ‘fine’ ✍️ But human translation is valued more ‼️Both vary in quality BUT AI more, even within a single book
Join us for this seminar, organized by the wonderful folks of the #RACISMMAFF project, with special thanks to Elena Domínguez Romero and Marta Carretero www.ucm.es/racismmaff
M Dolores Porto@mdporto.bsky.social · last mo.Less than a month before the deadline for AMPRA-7! 👇 for all the details! 🌐 www.etamu.edu/ampra7/
Maite Taboada@mtaboada.bsky.social · 5mo agoCFP: The 7th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA-7) Nov 5-7, fully online www.etamu.edu/ampra7/ Submissions until June 15: easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/A...
CFP: The 7th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA-7) Nov 5-7, fully online www.etamu.edu/ampra7/ Submissions until June 15: easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/A...
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!
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.
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SSHRC | CRSH@sshrc-crsh.canada.ca · 11mo ago👏 Bravo to the finalists of the 2025 #SSHRC Impact Awards! Discover more about these remarkable researchers: sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/news/2025... #ImpactAwards
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...
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!
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
arText@artext.bsky.social · last yr.📢 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).
📢 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).
Talk by Barbara Dancygier, one of the most prominent scholars in cognitive linguistics. And this one is about memes!
SFU Linguistics & Indigenous Languages@sfulinguistics.bsky.social · last yr.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
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...
On how a paper took 10 years, 3 authors, and 3 continents www.sfu.ca/linguistics/...
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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Just out! Paper with @corpusling.bsky.social on sentiment analysis in news articles. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
If you are at the #LSA2025, come see me do the 5 Minute Linguist thing today, right after #WOTY web.cvent.com/event/40d941...
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
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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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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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...
