@maite_taboada

Professor of Linguistics @SFU. Discourse analysis, computational linguistics, sentiment analysis, social media language, 'fake news' language. she/her

 Greater Vancouver
sfu.ca/~mtaboada/
Joined September 2013
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In this piece for @IRPP Policy Options, I argue that online toxicity has become banal, something we do without thinking policyoptions.irpp.org/magaz…
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🎖️En 2026 ingresarán na RAGC @feijoo_costa, @maite_taboada, Javier D. Bruguera e @MMartinonT. 💚A Academia enorgullécese de que persoas tan destacadas nos seus ámbitos científicos entren a formar parte da institución. @cretus_usc @CENIEH @SFU @CiTIUS
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Congratulations to @SFULinguistics professor, @maite_taboada, 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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@SSHRC_CRSH4 Sep 2025
👏 Bravo to the finalists of the 2025 #SSHRC Impact Awards! Discover more about these remarkable researchers: sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/news… #ImpactAwards
SSHRC. CRSH. 2025 Impact Awards.

ALT SSHRC. CRSH. 2025 Impact Awards.

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Join us Sept 18, 12:30pm for a research talk about toxicity prevention on Twitch. Presented by Tamara Bodden, a postdoc at Discourse Processing Lab. Zoom link & more info: sfu.ca/linguistics/events/20… @maite_taboada @SFUFASS @SFU_CompSci @SFULangDevLab @SFULABLab @phono_sfu

“omgBruh NOOBS” - Toxicity as a communicative practice on Twitch

Says colloquium speaker Dr. Tamara Bodden, “My research project aims to investigate toxicity on different stream levels (game, livestream and chat) in a multimodal and corpus-based approach.”

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I'm a finalist for the #SSHRC Insight Impact Award! What an honour to be selected as finalist! Thank you, @SSHRC_CRSH, for supporting social sciences and humanities research across Canada.
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@SSHRC_CRSH4 Sep 2025
👏 Bravo to the finalists of the 2025 #SSHRC Impact Awards! Discover more about these remarkable researchers: sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/news… #ImpactAwards
SSHRC. CRSH. 2025 Impact Awards.

ALT SSHRC. CRSH. 2025 Impact Awards.

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It has been a pleasure to present our research in @IPrA2025 at The University of Queensland (Australia). Thanks, @cliff_goddard and @HelBromhead (organizers of the panel), for your interest on our @UNED #EUPlainTech project (@CienciaGob, @AgEInves). 🤗
arText 💻✍️| Sistema de ayuda a la redacción@sistema_arText10 Jun 2025
📢19th International Pragmatics Conference 🗓️June 22–27 🌏Brisbane 🔗pragmatics.international/pag… Panel: Choosing the best words for clear accessible communication M. Bermúdez, I. da Cunha (@UNED) and M. Taboada (@SFU) will present our #EUPlainTech project (@CienciaGob, @AgEInves)
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Come work at Simon Fraser University! Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics Preference will be given to complete applications received by November 30, 2024 sfu.ca/vpacademic/academic-c… linguistlist.org/issues/35.2…
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Maite Taboada retweeted
ECAI2025@ecai202526 Oct 2024
Is #HateSpeech detection tough? This #MeetECAIers is dedicated to @maite_taboada, her expertise on this subject, and the vital role of #ComputationalLinguistics. 🗣️“We’re trying to incorporate #linguistic knowledge to #LargeLanguageModels and new text classification techniques”
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Maite Taboada retweeted
GRADUN@gradunav2 May 2024
¿Existen marcadores lingüísticos de Fake News? Estado de la cuestión y futuras líneas de investigación en nuestra jornada: La lingüística frente a la amenaza de la desinformación: perspectivas y metodologías de investigación Pamplona. 27 de mayo de 2024 unav.edu/web/instituto-cultu…
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Hablo sobre la desinformación en la @gradunav 👇👇👇
Edurne Garde@edurnegarde102 May 2024
El próximo 27 de mayo el grupo de investigación @gradunav organiza un simposio sobre desinformación desde una perspectiva lingüística. La jornada se podrá seguir tanto de manera presencial como virtual. Para ello, es necesario inscribirse en la página web 👇🏻
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Mujeres representan el 30% de las fuentes informativas en medios digitales efeminista.com/mujeres-fuent… Fan del proyectazo liderado por @maite_martin, donde puedes introducir un intervalo de tiempo para ver la cantidad de mujeres y hombres citados en noticias gemeco.ujaen.es
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Science Magazine recently spoke with Dr. Maite Taboada @maite_taboada about the lack of diversity in science news coverage. Read the article here: science.org/content/article/…
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"Important for journalists to address disparities—for example, by tracking diversity of their sources" @maite_taboada prof @SFU on important role journalists play in who they quote via @k_langin Taboada's #InformedOps bit.ly/2K62wR1 @SFUResearch science.org/content/article/…
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Maite Taboada retweeted
Maite Martín@maite_martin4 Mar 2024
🌐Proyecto GeMeCo📣Descubre la iniciativa desarrollada x el grupo @NLP_SINAI de la @ujaen en colaboración con la investigadora @maite_taboada de la @SFU (Canadá) q destapa las #BrechasDeGénero en medios d comunicación digitales en España🇪🇸#8M2024💜 🔗gemeco.ujaen.es/ 🧵👇
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There's still time! AMPRA-2024! ampra-6.org/
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FASS had the honour of speaking with @SSHRC_CRSH president Ted Hewitt during his visit to @SFU yesterday—FASS Dean @SLaurelWeldon, associate dean Steeve Mongrain & LING researcher @maite_taboada shared with him the many exciting & promising research taking place at FASS ✏️📚
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AMPRA 2024! Submit abstracts by February 15 ampra-6.org/
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“Where are all the ‘godmothers’ of AI? Women’s voices are not being heard.” New op-ed from @LubaKassova in @guardiannews ⬇️ theguardian.com/global-devel…

Where are all the ‘godmothers’ of AI? Women’s voices are not being heard

Amid the coverage of Sam Altman returning to the helm of OpenAI, women are being written out of the future of AI

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Excellent article by @LubaKassova about whose voices we hear when we hear about generative AI in the media theguardian.com/global-devel…

Where are all the ‘godmothers’ of AI? Women’s voices are not being heard

Amid the coverage of Sam Altman returning to the helm of OpenAI, women are being written out of the future of AI

theguardian.com
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🚨 NEW SHOW 🚨 🎙️ CorpusCast with @lovermob 🗣️ Robbie chats with @maite_taboada & Dr Katharina Ehret about Fake News 🤬 "The term's used as a barb" WATCH👉youtu.be/TTAzRdOTI5I LISTEN👉tinyurl.com/ye28afn7 #CorpuCast @AstonCorpus @AstonSSH
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Katharina and I had a great convo w/ @lovermob for his #CorpusCast! We talk about corpus methods in fake news detection and the register of online news comments
Dr Robbie Love@lovermob6 Sep 2023
Is it possible to detect fake news automatically, and how can corpus linguistics help? Episode 21 of #CorpusCast is out now with guests @maite_taboada & Katharina Ehret talking about research on fake news and online news comments youtu.be/TTAzRdOTI5I?si=mmqJ… robbielove.org/corpuscast-ep…
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