Professor of Linguistics @SFU. Discourse analysis, computational linguistics, sentiment analysis, social media language, 'fake news' language. she/her
Joined September 2013
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8 Oct 2021
In this piece for @IRPP Policy Options, I argue that online toxicity has become banal, something we do without thinking
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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.
4 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
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…
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5 Sep 2025
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.
4 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
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). 🤗
📢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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21 Nov 2024
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…
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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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¿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
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2 May 2024
Hablo sobre la desinformación en la @gradunav 👇👇👇
2 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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15 Apr 2024
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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27 Mar 2024
"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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4 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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12 Jan 2024
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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27 Nov 2023
“Where are all the ‘godmothers’ of AI? Women’s voices are not being heard.” New op-ed from @LubaKassova in @guardiannews ⬇️
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28 Nov 2023
Excellent article by @LubaKassova about whose voices we hear when we hear about generative AI in the media
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6 Sep 2023
🚨 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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6 Sep 2023
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
6 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…
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