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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 · 29d
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.
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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!
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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
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jun 25
IPrA in 2027 - Helsinki
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jun 25
Nice idea of the organizers of #ipra2025: signs with the first IPrA we attended
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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).
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jun 22
Oh, wow, Laura and Carmen! Two such lovely people. Say hi!
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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!
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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
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jun 12
Check out the paper, open access!!

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
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 · Jun 12
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 · Jun 12
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 · Jun 12
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 · Jun 12
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 · Jun 12
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 · Jun 12
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 · May 14
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 · May 9
Informed Opinions has been doing this outstanding advocacy work.
informedopinions.org
informedopinions.org
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · May 9
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
- ...
informedopinions.org
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · May 9
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!
Research Computing Group
www.rcg.sfu.ca
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · May 9
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
Radar de Parité
https://radardeparite.femmesexpertes.ca
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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Apr 29
The paper:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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