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Maite Taboada

@mtaboada.bsky.social
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Distinguished Professor of Linguistics @SFU. Discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, NLP, sentiment analysis, social media language, language of misinformation. she/her

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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our 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
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The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor @raammetaphor.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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! ✨
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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We hope this will be useful for corpus compilers
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We found lots of interesting things 👇🏻 The main thing? ➡️ Readers still prefer human translation, because AI translation is uneven in quality
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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. ...
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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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
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M Dolores Porto @mdporto.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
6 July - also online
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Less than a month before the deadline for AMPRA-7! 👇 for all the details! 🌐 www.etamu.edu/ampra7/
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Join us! Pragmatics in the Americas, broadly understood.
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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...
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Sounds like fun! I don't know AT at all, but open to learning more about it!
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The paper: Kolhatkar, V., N. Thain, J. Sorensen, L. Dixon and M. Taboada (2023) Classifying constructive comments. First Monday 28(4). doi.org/10.5210/fm.v...
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
We found good indicators of a constructive contribution *in news comments*: - The comment provides evidence or a solution - Promotes dialogue - Addresses specific points (in the news article) - May include personal stories or address personal experience as evidence
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Hey, thanks for the shout-out! Yes, we have worked on models of constructive conversations, with the folks at Jigsaw (the flipside of the toxicity detector).
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The article: doi.org/10.1007/s001...
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Conflicting feelings: sociological and computational sentiment in workplace sentiment surveillance - AI & SOCIETY
Large employers are increasingly turning to sentiment analysis technologies as a form of corporate worker surveillance. Previous work has identified numerous problems with this trend, arguing that the...
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This was a group effort with colleagues at SFU's @digitaldemocracies.bsky.social
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
And yet, we see sentiment analysis everywhere. In this paper, we analyze the rhetoric of one particular company using sentiment analysis to gauge the employee happiness. You can imagine how that's going to go wrong. Bossware at its worst.
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I have done research on sentiment analysis for years, trying to explain how it needs linguistically-informed methods. How you can't just "do sentiment analysis". How you can't just aggregate values and claim insight.
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
On how not to do sentiment analysis: doi.org/10.1007/s001...
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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!
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SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @sfufass.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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...
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The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor @raammetaphor.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
And we’re also thrilled to announce that the next RaAM Conference will be held in Pamplona, Spain! Save the dates!
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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!
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arText @artext.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
IPrA in 2027 - Helsinki
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Nice idea of the organizers of #ipra2025: signs with the first IPrA we attended
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
In Brisbane for #ipra2025!
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arText @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).
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Oh, wow, Laura and Carmen! Two such lovely people. Say hi!
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Talk by Barbara Dancygier, one of the most prominent scholars in cognitive linguistics. And this one is about memes!
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Check out the paper, open access!! www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
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Podcasts as an emerging register of computer-mediated communication | John Benjamins
Abstract Podcasts, a relatively recent audio medium, have risen in popularity since their initial appearance in the mid-2000s. Yet, little is known about their lexico-grammatical characteristics and t...
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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.
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We show that podcasts are an emerging register of computer mediated communication, with lots of internal variability.
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Jussi Karlgren, then at Spotify, gave us the idea of working on podcasts and was kind enough to zoom in to our class to give us background on their dataset.
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The funny bit of background is that we also brainstormed on that other social media site, appealing to the community of discourse experts to help us come up with interesting data to analyze.
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The paper started at a graduate seminar in Fall 2022. All the students in the class collaborated to brainstorm research ideas, collect data, think of methodologies, run analyses, & write up the results. Katharina Ehret, our resident MDA expert, joined later to help us run more analyses.
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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...
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
You're welcome! GeMeCo (the Spanish language dashboard) has some IP restrictions because of potential DoS attacks. the ups and downs are sometimes temporary. The trend line is at about 30%
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Informed Opinions has been doing this outstanding advocacy work. informedopinions.org
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
2(b). Pressure and praise work... some. We've talked to most of these news outlets and they say they want to do better. Lots of issues: - The world is the way it is - Women experts sometimes don't want to talk to the media (leads to online abuse) - Reporters always have deadline pressures - ...
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
2. Yeah, maintenance is an issue. It's not too hard, but it needs regular attention. CTV broke recently and we're still working on the fix. I am lucky that @sfu.ca supports this project and thankful that the talented folks at www.rcg.sfu.ca are there for us!
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Research Computing Group
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Thanks for engaging with this work, @01factory.bsky.social! Some quick answers: 1. Replicated in French and Spanish media: radardeparite.femmesexpertes.ca gemeco.ujaen.es
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Radar de Parité
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
On how a paper took 10 years, 3 authors, and 3 continents www.sfu.ca/linguistics/...
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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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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Just out! Paper with @corpusling.bsky.social on sentiment analysis in news articles. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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
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