Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Our paper now out with Findings of EMNLP 2026! Some of our conclusions about AI translation of literary texts: 🤖 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 arxiv.org/abs/2606.26040 083
Reposted by Maite TaboadaThe Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor @raammetaphor.bsky.social · 15/07/2026From 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! ✨ 143
Reposted by Maite TaboadaMonika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · 25/06/2026We hope this will be useful for corpus compilers 095
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 29/06/2026For 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. ... 163
Reposted by Maite TaboadaMarzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026A 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 0216
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Join 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 010
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Less than a month before the deadline for AMPRA-7! 👇 for all the details! 🌐 www.etamu.edu/ampra7/ 001
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 24/02/2026CFP: 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... 001
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 14/10/2025On how not to do sentiment analysis: doi.org/10.1007/s001... 112
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Last 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! 272
Reposted by Maite TaboadaSFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @sfufass.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Congratulations 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.linguistics.bsky.socialBluesky 152
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 05/09/2025I'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... 240
Reposted by Maite TaboadaThe Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor @raammetaphor.bsky.social · 09/08/2025And we’re also thrilled to announce that the next RaAM Conference will be held in Pamplona, Spain! Save the dates! 142
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Amber 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! 093
Reposted by Maite TaboadaarText @artext.bsky.social · 26/06/2025It 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 083
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Nice idea of the organizers of #ipra2025: signs with the first IPrA we attended 050
Reposted by Maite TaboadaarText @artext.bsky.social · 23/06/2025📢 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). 041
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Talk by Barbara Dancygier, one of the most prominent scholars in cognitive linguistics. And this one is about memes! 050
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Another 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... 140
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 30/04/2025On how a paper took 10 years, 3 authors, and 3 continents www.sfu.ca/linguistics/...sfu.caThe twists and turns of research: In conversation with Maite TaboadaMaite 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... 160
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Just out! Paper with @corpusling.bsky.social on sentiment analysis in news articles. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 0113
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 21/02/2025New paper on who is quoted in the news. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 2217
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 10/01/2025If you are at the #LSA2025, come see me do the 5 Minute Linguist thing today, right after #WOTY web.cvent.com/event/40d941... 0154
Reposted by Maite TaboadaSFLIG @sflig.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Hello 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 2126
Reposted by Maite TaboadaSFU Linguistics & Indigenous Languages @sfulinguistics.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Distinguished Professor Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social presented research at the Centre for Information Technology (CiTIUS) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain: www.sfu.ca/linguistics/...sfu.caMaite Taboada presents text classification technique that detects toxicity in online commentsThe goal of Taboada's work is to build a moderation platform to feature constructive comments and filter out toxicity. 063
Reposted by Maite TaboadaElena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Discourse 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/DISjournals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 01910
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Come 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... 021