Maite Taboada

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

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Maite Taboada
@mtaboada.bsky.social

Join us for the Conference of the American Pragmatics Association! 📅 November 5-7, 2026 🚩 Fully online! Free registration! 🎙️ 3 plenary speakers: Andrea Beltrama, Matthew Prior, Naoko Taguchi 📝 66 oral presentations, 28 posters 👉 Program, book of abstracts & registration: www.etamu.edu/ampra7/

Maite Taboada
@mtaboada.bsky.social

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

SFU AI@sfu-cs-ai.bsky.social

EMNLP 2026 is coming up soon and we will be there! See you in Budapest 🇭🇺 Oct 24–29 #EMNLP2026 Check out our work!

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Monika Bednarek
@corpusling.bsky.social

We hope this will be useful for corpus compilers

IJCL@ijcl.bsky.social

OUT 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...

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Maite Taboada
@mtaboada.bsky.social

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

📚 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

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Marzena Karpinska
@markar.bsky.social

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

📚 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

Maite Taboada
@mtaboada.bsky.social

Less than a month before the deadline for AMPRA-7! 👇 for all the details! 🌐 www.etamu.edu/ampra7/

Maite Taboada@mtaboada.bsky.social

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...

Maite Taboada
@mtaboada.bsky.social

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

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

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

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.

linguistics.bsky.socialBluesky
SSHRC | CRSH@sshrc-crsh.canada.ca

👏 Bravo to the finalists of the 2025 #SSHRC Impact Awards! Discover more about these remarkable researchers: sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/news/2025... #ImpactAwards

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arText
@artext.bsky.social

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

📢 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

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

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

sfu.caConstructions 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."
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Maite Taboada
@mtaboada.bsky.social

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.

Maite Taboada
@mtaboada.bsky.social

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.

Maite Taboada
@mtaboada.bsky.social

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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SFLIG
@sflig.bsky.social

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

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SFU Linguistics & Indigenous Languages
@sfulinguistics.bsky.social

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/...

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.

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