Maite Taboada

Background and Full Curriculum Vitae

Full CV - in pdf format

Background Summary

Education

2001 Ph.D. - English Linguistics
Department of English Philology
Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Madrid, Spain
1999-2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Computing Science
University of Alberta - Edmonton, Canada
1997 M.Sc. - Computational Linguistics
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, USA
1993 M.A. - English Philology
Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Madrid, Spain
1992-1993 Exchange student
Stetson University - DeLand, USA

Teaching & Positions Held

September 2007- Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics - Simon Fraser University, Canada
Teaching at SFU
January 2008- Associate Member
Cognitive Science Program - Simon Fraser University, Canada
September 2005- Associate Member
School of Computing Science - Simon Fraser University, Canada
September 2004-August 2007 Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics - Simon Fraser University, Canada
Teaching at SFU
May-August 2004 Visiting Chair in Cognitive Science
Institut für Linguistik - Universität Potsdam, Germany
2001-2004 Limited-Term Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics - Simon Fraser University, Canada
Teaching at SFU
1999-2000 Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies - University of Alberta, Canada
Instructor for SPAN 100 - Beginners' Spanish
1999 Department of Linguistics - University of Alberta, Canada
Instructor for LING 204 - Modern English Syntax
1997-1998 Visiting Assistant Professor (Profesora Asociada)
Departamento de Filología Inglesa - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Instructor for: English Morphosyntax; Methods of Teaching English as a Second Language;
Fundamental Concepts of English Language Teaching
1992-1993 Teaching Assistant
Department of Modern Languages - Stetson University, USA

Research Projects

Current Current research projects
2000-2001 Chief Scientist, Senior Computational Linguist
MindfulEye.com Systems Inc. - Vancouver, B.C.
Design and development of a natural language processing system
1999-2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Computing Science
University of Alberta - Edmonton, Canada
Conversation policies for agent communication.
1995-1997 JANUS
Center for Machine Translation - Carnegie Mellon University
Implementation of a Discourse Processor for Disambiguation in MT
Development of Spanish and English Grammars for Speech-to-Speech Translation
1993-1995 GIST - Generating InStructional Text
(LRE Project 062-09 - European Union)
Research assistant, discourse analysis of administrative texts for Natural Language Generation

 

  
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