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 · Jan 7

Sounds like fun! I don't know AT at all, but open to learning more about it!

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jan 6

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...

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jan 6

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

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jan 6

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).

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Oct 14

The article: doi.org/10.1007/s001...

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 · Oct 14

This was a group effort with colleagues at SFU's @digitaldemocracies.bsky.social

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Oct 14

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.

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Oct 14

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.

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Oct 14

On how not to do sentiment analysis:
doi.org/10.1007/s001...

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Sep 10

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 · Sep 5

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.

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Sep 5

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 · Aug 9

And we’re also thrilled to announce that the next RaAM Conference will be held in Pamplona, Spain! Save the dates!

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Aug 9

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 · Jun 26

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

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jun 25

IPrA in 2027 - Helsinki

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jun 25

Nice idea of the organizers of #ipra2025: signs with the first IPrA we attended

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jun 25

In Brisbane for #ipra2025!

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arText @artext.bsky.social · Jun 23

📢 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).

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jun 22

Oh, wow, Laura and Carmen! Two such lovely people. Say hi!

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jun 20

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 · Jun 19

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

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."

www.sfu.ca

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SFU Linguistics & Indigenous Languages @sfulinguistics.bsky.social · Jun 19

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

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."

www.sfu.ca