Links to most publications are provided, but do contact
me if something is not available publicly. You can also
check my Google Scholar page.
Book
- Taboada, M. (2004) Building Coherence and Cohesion:
Task-Oriented Dialogue in English and Spanish.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. ISBN: 1 58811
563 1.
Edited Books and Journals
- Benamara, F, D. Inkpen and M. Taboada (eds.) (2018)
Language in Social Media: Exploiting discourse and
other contextual information. Special Issue of Computational
Linguistics 44(4).
- Taboada, M., I. da Cunha, E.G. Maziero, P. Cardoso,
J.D. Antonio, M. Iruskieta (2017) Proceedings of the 6th Workshop
on Recent Advances in RST and Related Formalisms.
Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Taboada, M. and R. Trnavac (eds.) (2013) Nonveridicality and evaluation:
Theoretical, computational and corpus approaches.
Leiden: Brill.
- Taboada, M., S. Doval and E. González (eds.) (2013)
Contrastive discourse analysis:
Functional and corpus perspectives. London:
Equinox. (Reprint of the special issue below). ISBN:
9781908049759.
- Taboada, M., S. Doval and E. González (eds.) (2012) Contrastive Discourse Analysis:
Functional and Corpus Perspectives.
Special issue of Linguistics and the Human Sciences
6 (1-3).
Journal Articles
- Asr, F.T., M. Mazraeh, A. Lopes, V. Gautam, J.
Gonzales, P. Rao and M. Taboada (to appear) The Gender
Gap Tracker: Using Natural Language Processing to
measure gender bias in media. PLoS ONE.
- Gómez-González, MLA and M. Taboada (to appear)
Concession strategies in online newspaper comments. Journal of Pragmatics.
- Ehret, K. and M. Taboada (to appear) The interplay of complexity and
subjectivity in opinionated discourse. Discourse Studies.
- Kolhatkar, V., N. Thain, J. Sorensen, L. Dixon and
M. Taboada (to appear) Classifying constructive comments.
First Monday. Available on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05476.
- Jiménez-Zafra, S., N. Cruz-Díaz, M. Taboada and M.
Martín-Valdivia (to appear) Negation detection for sentiment
analysis: A case study in Spanish. Natural Language Engineering.
- Viera, C. and M. Taboada (2021) Aplicación de la lingüística
sistémico-funcional al análisis de conferencias
académicas. Revista Signos 54(105):
277-301.
- Chik, S. and M. Taboada (2020) Generic structure and rhetorical
relations of online book reviews in English,
Japanese and Chinese. Contrastive Pragmatics 1(2):
143-179.
- Kolhatkar, V., H. Wu, L. Cavasso, E. Francis, K.
Shukla and M. Taboada (2020) The SFU Opinion and Comments Corpus:
A corpus for the analysis of online news comments.
Corpus Pragmatics 4:
155–190.
- Ehret, K. and M. Taboada (2020) Are
online news comments like face-to-face conversation?
A multi-dimensional analysis of an emerging register.
Register
Studies 2(1): 1-36.
- Goddard, C., M. Taboada and R. Trnavac (2019) The semantics of evaluational
adjectives: Perspectives from Natural Semantic
Metalanguage and Appraisal. Functions of Language
26(3): 308-342.
- Das, D. and M. Taboada (2019) Multiple signals of coherence
relations. Discours 24: 3-38.
- Asr, F. T. and M. Taboada (2019) Big data and quality data for fake
news and misinformation detection. Big Data & Society.
January-June 2019: 1-14.
- Taboada, M. (2019) The
space of coherence relations and their signalling in
discourse. Language, Context and Text
1(2): 205-233.
- Pappas, P., M. Taboada and K. Alexander (2019) Teaching
linguistic argumentation through a writing-intensive
approach.
Language (Teaching Linguistics Section)
95(3): e339-e363.
- Benamara, F., D. Inkpen and M. Taboada (2018) Introduction
to the Special Issue on Language in Social Media:
Exploiting discourse and other contextual
information. Computational
Linguistics 44 (4): 663-681.
- Das, D. and M. Taboada (2018) Signalling
of coherence relations in discourse. Discourse Processes
55(8): 743-770.
- Das, D. and M. Taboada (2018) RST
Signalling Corpus: A corpus of signals of coherence
relations. Language Resources and Evaluation
52(1): 149-184.
- Thompson, J., B. Leung, M. Blair and M. Taboada
(2017)
Sentiment analysis of video game chat messaging:
Detecting sentiment and toxicity in StarCraft2.
Knowledge-Based Systems
137: 149-162.
- Aloy Mayo, M. and M. Taboada (2017) Evaluation
in political discourse addressed to women: Appraisal
analysis of Cosmopolitan's coverage of the 2014 US
midterm elections. Discourse, Context and Media
18: 40-48.
- Taboada, M., R. Trnavac and C. Goddard (2017) On being negative. Corpus Pragmatics 1(1):
57-76.
- Benamara, F., M. Taboada and Y. Mathieu (2017) Evaluative language beyond bags of
words: Linguistic insights and computational
applications. Computational Linguistics
43(1): 201-264.
- Cardoso, P., M. Taboada and T. Pardo (2017) Subtopic annotation and topic
segmentation for news texts. Corpora 12(1): 23–54.
- Cruz, N, M. Taboada and R. Mitkov (2016) A machine learning approach to
negation and speculation detection for sentiment
analysis. Journal of the Association for
Information Science and Technology 67(9):
2118-2136.
- Trnavac, R., D. Das and M. Taboada (2016) Discourse relations and evaluation.
Corpora 11(2): 169-190.
- Taboada, M. (2016) Sentiment analysis: An overview from
linguistics. Annual Review of Linguistics.
2: 325-347.
- Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada (2016) Cataphora, backgrounding and
accessibility in discourse. Journal of Pragmatics. 93:
68-84.
- Iruskieta, M., I. da Cunha and M. Taboada (2015) Principles of a qualitative method
for rhetorical analysis evaluation: A contrastive
analysis English-Spanish-Basque. Language Resources and Evaluation
49 (2): 263-309.
- Taboada, M., M. Carretero and J. Hinnell (2014) Loving and hating the movies in
English, German and Spanish. Languages in Contrast
14 (1): 127-161.
- Acartürk, C., M. Taboada and C. Habel (2013) Cohesion in multimodal documents:
Effects of cross-referencing. Information Design. 20
(2): 98-110.
- Taboada, M. and D. Das (2013) Annotation upon annotation: Adding
signalling information to a corpus of discourse
relations. Dialogue
and Discourse 4 (2): 249-281.
- Taboada, M. and C. Habel (2013) Rhetorical relations in multimodal
documents. Discourse
Studies 15 (1): 59-85.
- Taboada, M., S. Doval Suárez and E. González Álvarez
(2012) Functional and corpus perspectives
in contrastive discourse analysis (Introduction
to the special issue). Linguistics and the Human Sciences
6 (1-3): 1-17
- Taboada, M. and MLA Gómez-González (2012) Discourse markers and coherence
relations: Comparison across markers, languages and
modalities. Linguistics and the Human Sciences
6 (1-3): 17-41.
- Taboada, M. and M. Carretero (2012) Contrastive analyses of evaluation
in text: Key issues in the design of an annotation
system for Attitude applicable to consumer reviews
in English and Spanish. Linguistics and the Human
Sciences 6 (1-3): 275-295.
- Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada (2012) The contribution of nonveridical
rhetorical relations to evaluation in discourse.
Language Sciences 34 (3):
301-318.
- Taboada, M., J. Brooke, M. Tofiloski, K. Voll and M.
Stede (2011) Lexicon-Based Methods for Sentiment
Analysis. Computational Linguistics
37 (2): 267-307.
- Taboada, M. (2011) Stages in an online review genre.
Text and Talk 31 (2):
247-269.
- Taboada, M. and L. Wiesemann (2010) Subjects and topics in conversation.
Journal of Pragmatics 42
(7): 1816-1828.
- Taboada, M. and L. Hadic Zabala (2008) Deciding on units of analysis within
Centering Theory. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic
Theory 4 (1): 63-108.
- Taboada, M. (2006) Spontaneous and non-spontaneous
turn-taking. Pragmatics 16(2-3):
329-360.
- Taboada, M. and W.C. Mann (2006) Applications of Rhetorical Structure
Theory. Discourse
Studies 8 (4): 567-588.
- Taboada, M. and W.C. Mann (2006) Rhetorical Structure Theory: Looking
back and moving ahead. Discourse Studies 8(3):
423-459.
- Taboada, M. (2006) Discourse markers as signals (or
not) of rhetorical relations. Journal of Pragmatics
38(4): 567-592.
- Taboada, M. (2004) The genre structure of bulletin
board messages. Text Technology 13 (2):
55-82.
- Lavid, J. and M. Taboada (2004) Stylistic differences in document
design across languages in Europe: A
cross-linguistic characterization. Journal of Technical Writing and
Communication. 34 (1-2): 43-65.
- Taboada, M. and J. Lavid (2003) Rhetorical and thematic patterns in
scheduling dialogues: A generic characterization.
Functions of Language. 10
(2): 147-179.
- Taboada, M. (2003) Modeling task-oriented dialogue.
Computers and the Humanities.
37 (4): 431-454.
- Taboada, M. (2002) Foco y pronominalización en la
lengua hablada: Una primera aproximación. Documentos
de Español Actual 3-4: 173-200.
Book Chapters
- Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada (2020) Positive Appraisal
in online news comments. In K. Mullan, B. Peeters and
L. Sadow (eds.) Studies in Ethnopragmatics,
Cultural Semantics and Intercultural
Communication: Ethnopragmatics and Semantic
Analysis. Berlin: Springer. 185-205.
- Taboada, M. (2019) Cohesion and conjunction. In G.
Thompson, W. Bowcher, L. Fontaine and J. Liang (eds.)
The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic
Functional Linguistics. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. Pp.311-322.
- Taboada, M., M. Carretero and J. Hinnell (2016)
Loving and hating the movies in English, German and
Spanish. In Lefer, M.A. and S. Vogeleer. Genre- and Register-related
Discourse Features in Contrast. Amsterdam:
John Benjamins. pp. 127–161. (Reprint of 2014 journal
article).
- Carretero, M. and M. Taboada (2015) The annotation
of Appraisal: How Attitude and Epistemic Modality
overlap in English and Spanish consumer reviews. In J.
R. Zamorano (ed.), Thinking Modally: English and
Contrastive Studies on Modality.
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars. pp. 249-270.
- Carretero, M. and M. Taboada (2014) Graduation within the scope of
Attitude in English and Spanish consumer reviews of
books and movies. In Thompson, Geoff & Laura
Alba-Juez (eds.) Evaluation in Context.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 221-239.
- Taboada, M. (2012) Los géneros discursivos: una
perspectiva sistémica funcional. In Martha Shiro,
Patrick Charaudeau and Luisa Granato (eds.) Los géneros discursivos desde
múltiples perspectivas: teorías y análisis.
Madrid: Iberoamericana. 45-67.
- Taboada, M. (2009) Implicit and explicit coherence
relations. In J. Renkema (ed.) Discourse, of Course.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 127-140.
- Taboada, M. (2008) Reference, centres and transitions
in spoken Spanish. In J. Gundel and N. Hedberg
(eds.) Reference: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. 176-215.
- Gómez-González, MLA and Taboada, M. (2005) Coherence
relations in Functional (Discourse) Grammar. In J. L.
Mackenzie and MLA Gómez-González. Studies in Functional Discourse
Grammar. Berne: Peter Lang. 227-259.
- Taboada, M. (2005) Anaphoric terms and focus of
attention in English and Spanish. In C.
Butler, MLA Gómez-González and S. Doval (eds.) The Dynamics of Language Use:
Functional and Contrastive Perspectives.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 195-216.
- Taboada, M. (2004) Rhetorical relations in dialogue: A
contrastive study. In C. L. Moder and A.
Martinovic-Zic (eds.) Discourse Across Languages and
Cultures. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins. 75-97.
- Read a review of the book in the
LINGUIST List.
- Taboada, M. (2001) A general description for the
structure of conversation: A hopeless task? In
Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza (ed.) Panorama Actual de
la Lingüística Aplicada: Conocimiento, Procesamiento
y Uso del Lenguaje. Volumen II. Logroño:
Universidad de La Rioja. 417-424.
- Taboada, M. (2000) Cohesion as a
measure in generic analysis. In Alan Melby and
Arle Lommel (eds.) The 26th LACUS Forum.
Chapel Hill, N.C.: The Linguistic Association of
Canada and the United States. 35-49.
Conference
Proceedings
- Asr, F. and M. Taboada (2018) The data challenge in misinformation
detection: Source reputation vs. content veracity.
Proceedings
of the 1st Workshop on Fact Extraction and
Verification (FEVER), Conference on Empirical
Methods in Natural Language Processing.
Brussels. November 2018.
- Kolhatkar, V. and M. Taboada (2018) A corpus for the analysis of online
comments. Proceedings of the Widening NLP
Workshop, 16th Annual Conference of the North
American Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics. New Orleans. June
2018. Poster.
- Kolhatkar. V. and M. Taboada (2017) Using the New York Times Picks to
identify constructive comments. Proceedings of the Natural
Language Processing Meets Journalism Workshop,
Conference
on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing. Copenhagen. September 2017.
100-105.
- Das, D., M. Stede and M. Taboada (2017) The good, the bad and the
disagreement: Complex ground truth in rhetorical
structure analysis. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop
on RST and Related Formalisms. Santiago
de Compostela, Spain. September 2017. 11-19.
- Alkorta, J., M. Iruskieta, K. Gojenola and M.
Taboada (2017) Using lexical level information in
discourse structures for Basque sentiment analysis.
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop
on RST and Related Formalisms. Santiago
de Compostela, Spain. September 2017. 39-47.
- Kolhatkar, V. and M. Taboada (2017) Constructiveness in news comments.
Proceedings of the 1st Abusive
Language Online Workshop, 55th Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics.
Vancouver. August 2017. 11-17. Presentation slides.
- Hoogervorst, R., E. Essink, W. Jansen, M van den
Helder, K. Schouten, F. Frasincar, M. Taboada (2016) Aspect-based sentiment analysis on
the web using Rhetorical Structure Theory. In A.
Bozzon, P. Cudre-Maroux and C. Pautasso (eds.) Proceedings
of the 16th International Conference on Web
Engineering (ICWE). Lugano, Switzerland.
June 2016. 317-334.
- Benamara, F. and M. Taboada (2015) Mapping different rhetorical
relation annotations: A proposal. In Proceedings of the 4th Joint
Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
(*SEM), collocated with the Conference of the North American
Association for Computational Linguistics.
Denver. June 2015.
- Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada (2014) Discourse relations and affective
content in the expression of opinion in texts.
In G. Kotzoglou et al. (eds), Selected Papers of
the 11th International Conference on Greek
Linguistics. Rhodes, Greece. 1705-1715.
- Aloy Mayo, M., R. M. Seraj, A. P. García Varela, D.
Fass, F. Popowich, A. Sarkar and M. Taboada (2014) An analysis of affective words in
Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the
Northwest Natural Language Processing Workshop.
Seattle, WA. April 2014.
- Das, D. and M. Taboada (2013) Explicit and implicit coherence
relations: A corpus study. In Proceedings of
the 2013 Annual Conference of the Canadian
Linguistic Association. Victoria, Canada.
- Cardoso, P., M. Taboada and T. Pardo (2013) Subtopic annotation in a corpus of
news texts: Steps towards automatic segmentation.
Proceedings of the 9th Brazilian Symposium in
Information and Human Language Technology (STIL).
Fortaleza, Brazil. October 2013.
- Cardoso, P., M. Taboada and T. Pardo (2013) On the contribution of discourse to
topic segmentation. Proceedings of the 14th
Annual SIGDial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Metz,
France. August 2013.
- Konstantinova, N., S. de Sousa, N. P. Cruz, M. J.
Maña, M. Taboada and R. Mitkov (2012) A review corpus annotated for
negation, speculation and their scope. Proceedings
of the 8th International Conference on Language
Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Istanbul,
Turkey. May 2012. pp. 3190-3195.
- Tofiloski, M., F. Popowich and M. Taboada (2010)
Extending Centering Theory for the measure of
coherence. Proceedings of the Pacific Northwest
Regional NLP Workshop. Seattle. April 2010.
- Taboada, M., J. Brooke and M. Stede (2009) Genre-based paragraph classification
for sentiment analysis. In Proceedings of
10th Annual SIGDIAL Conference on Discourse and
Dialogue. London, UK. September 2009. pp. 62-70.
- Brooke, J., M. Tofiloski and M. Taboada (2009) Cross-linguistic sentiment analysis:
From English to Spanish. In Proceedings of
RANLP 2009, Recent Advances in Natural Language
Processing. Borovets, Bulgaria. September 2009.
pp. 50-54. -- Poster
- Tofiloski, M., J. Brooke and M. Taboada (2009) A syntactic and lexical-based
discourse segmenter. In Proceedings of the
47th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics. Singapore, August
2009. pp. 77-80. -- Poster -- The software is also available.
- Voll, K. and M. Taboada (2007) Not all words are created equal:
Extracting semantic orientation as a function of
adjective relevance. In Proceedings of the
20th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence. Gold Coast, Australia. December
2007. pp. 337-346.
- Murray, G., M. Taboada and S. Renals (2006) Prosodic correlates of rhetorical
relations. Proceedings of Workshop
"Analyzing Conversations in Text and Speech", North
American Association for Computational Linguistics.
New York. June 2006. pp. 1-7.
- Taboada, M., M. A. Gillies and P. McFetridge (2006)
Sentiment classification techniques
for tracking literary reputation. Proceedings
of LREC Workshop, "Towards Computational Models of
Literary Analysis". Genoa, Italy. May 2006. pp.
36-43.
- Taboada, M., C. Anthony and K. Voll (2006) Methods for creating semantic
orientation dictionaries. Proceedings of 5th
International Conference on Language Resources and
Evaluation (LREC). Genoa, Italy. May 2006. pp.
427-432.
- Taboada, M. and J. Grieve (2004) Analyzing Appraisal automatically.
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Spring Symposium on Exploring Attitude and Affect in
Text. Stanford. March 2004. AAAI Technical
Report SS-04-07. (pp.158-161). Download poster (pdf).
- Taboada, M. (2002) Centering and Pronominal Reference:
In Dialogue, In Spanish. Proceedings, 6th
Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of
Dialogue, EDILOG. Edinburgh. September 2002:
177-184.
- Taboada, M. (1997) Improving Translation through
Contextual Information. In Proceedings of
the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics, ACL/EACL '97. Student
session. Madrid, Spain. July, 1997. 510-512.
- Lavie, A., Levin, L., Zhan, P., Taboada, M., Gates,
D., Lapata, M., Clark, C., Broadhead, M., Waibel, A.
(1997) Expanding the Domain of a
Multilingual Speech-to-Speech Translation System.
In Proceedings of the Spoken Language Translation
Workshop, 35th Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics. ACL/EACL
'97. Madrid, Spain. July, 1997. 67-72.
- Lavie, A., Levin, L., Qu, Y., Waibel, A., Gates, D.,
Gavalda, M., Mayfield, L., and Taboada, M. (1996) Dialogue
processing in a conversational speech translation
system. In Proceedings of the ICSLP '96, 4th
International Conference on Spoken Language
Processing. Philadelphia, USA. October 1996.
177-182.
Corpora
- Kolhatkar, V., Thain, N., Sorensen, J., Dixon, L.,
Taboada, M., 2020. C3: The Constructive Comments
Corpus. Jigsaw and Simon Fraser University. Dataset.
DOI: 10.25314/ea49062a-5cf6-4403-9918-539e15fd7b52.
- Asr, F.T. and M. Taboada (2019) MisInfoText. A collection of
news articles with 'false' and 'true' labels.
- Kolhatkar, V., H. Wu, L. Cavasso, E. Francis, K.
Shukla and M. Taboada (2018) The SFU Opinion and
Comments Corpus: A corpus for the analysis of online
news comments. Simon Fraser University. DOI: 10.25314/71358419-06df-4b07-a160-7913737ca28f.
- Das, D., M. Taboada and P. McFetridge (2015) RST
Signalling Corpus. LDC2015T10. Distributed through
the
Linguistic Data Consortium.
- Taboada, M. and L. Wiesemann (2011) SFU Centering Corpus. Simon
Fraser University.
- Taboada, M. (2008) The SFU Review Corpus. Simon
Fraser University.
- Taboada, M. and J. Renkema (2008) Discourse Relations Reference Corpus.
Simon Fraser University and Tilburg University.
Technical Reports and
Other Publications
- Gautam, V. and M. Taboada (2019) Constructiveness and Toxicity in
Online News Comments. Report. Simon Fraser
University. November 2019.
- Stede, M., M. Taboada and D. Das (2017) Annotation Guidelines for
Rhetorical Structure. Manuscript. University of
Potsdam and Simon Fraser University. March 2017.
- Goddard, C., M. Taboada and R. Trnavac (2016) Semantic Descriptions of 24
Evaluational Adjectives, for Application in
Sentiment Analysis. School of Computing Science
Technical Report SFU-CMPT TR 2016-42-1. http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06697.
- Das, D. and M. Taboada (2014). RST Signalling Corpus Annotation
Manual. Manuscript. Simon Fraser University.
September 2014.
- Taboada, M., Kimberly Voll and Julian Brooke (2008)
Extracting Sentiment as a Function
of Discourse Structure and Topicality. School of Computing Science
Technical Report 2008-20.
- Hadic Zabala, Loreley and Maite Taboada. Centering Theory in Spanish:
Coding Manual. Manuscript. Simon Fraser
University. June 2006.
- Lavid, J. and Taboada, M. Specification of
Evaluation Criteria for Text Quality: Preliminary
Report on Some Relevant Issues. GIST (Generating
InStructional Text) Internal Report INT-12. September
1994.
- Taboada, M. Theme Markedness in English and
Spanish: A Systemic-Functional Approach. Manuscript.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. May 1995.
Theses
- Taboada, M. (January 2001) Collaborating through
Talk: The Interactive Construction of Task-Oriented
Dialogue in English and Spanish. Ph.D.
dissertation, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
- Title in Spanish: La Colaboración a través
de la conversación: Construcción interactiva de
diálogos orientados a tareas en inglés y en
español. Abstract
- Taboada, M. (May 1997) Discourse Information for
Disambiguation: The Phoenix Approach in JANUS.
M.Sc. Thesis. Carnegie Mellon University.
Plenary and Invited
Presentations
- Taboada, M.(2020) Rhetorical relations in discourse
and in cognition. Abralin ao Vivo (online). June
2020.
- Taboada, M. (2019) Managing comments and
misinformation online with text classification
techniques. 32nd Canadian Conference on
Artificial Intelligence. Kingston,
Ontario. May 2019. (Plenary presentation).
- Taboada, M. (2019) Fantastic
online comments and how to find them. 11th International Corpus
Linguistics Conference. Valencia, Spain.
May 2019. (Plenary presentation).
- Taboada, M. (2017) Language and social media:
Opportunities for the EAL classroom. BC-TEAL Regional Conference.
Vancouver, BC. November 2017. (Plenary presentation).
- Taboada, M. (2016) Evaluation in the round: From
lexis to discourse. 4th International Workshop on
Discourse Analysis. Santiago de
Compostela, Spain. September 2016. (Plenary
presentation).
- Taboada, M. (2015) The space of rhetorical
relations, and their signalling in discourse. Workshop on RST and Discourse
Studies, part of the 31st Conference of the Spanish
Society for Natural Language Processing.
Alicante, Spain. September 2015. (Plenary
presentation).
- Taboada, M. (2015) Appraisal, subjectivity,
nonveridicality, coherence relations: Connections and
overlaps. 42nd International Systemic
Functional Congress . Aachen, Germany.
July 2015. (Plenary presentation).
- Taboada, M. (2015) Rhetorical relations are
relations of coherence: What discourse coherence
means, and how we can find it. Conference of the COST Action
TextLink: Structuring Discourse in Multilingual
Europe . Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
January 2015. (Plenary presentation).
- Taboada, M. (2013) Computational linguistics and
discourse. STIL - The 9th Brazilian Symposium on
Information and Human Language Technology.
Fortaleza, Brazil. October 2013. (Plenary
presentation).
- Taboada, M. (2013) Contrasting opinions: Appraisal
in a multilingual corpus. International Conference
on Genre- and Register-Related Text and Discourse
Features in Multilingual Corpora. Brussels,
Belgium. January 2013. (Plenary presentation).
- Taboada, M. (2012) Implicit and explicit relations
in discourse. Conference of the Swiss Society of
Linguistics. Lugano, Switzerland. September
2012. (Plenary presentation)
- Taboada, M. (2009) Coherencia, cohesión, géneros:
Integración de conceptos y aplicaciones prácticas. IV
Argentine Colloquium of the International
Association for Dialogue Analysis. La Plata,
Argentina. July 2009. (Plenary presentation).
- Taboada, M. (2008) Implicit and explicit coherence
relations. 18th Meeting of the Society for Text
and Discourse. Memphis, July 2008. (Invited
workshop presentation).
- Taboada, M. and L. Hadic Zabala (2007) Subjects and
topics in conversation. 10th International
Pragmatics Conference. Göteborg, Sweden. July
2007. (Invited panel presentation).
- Taboada, M. (2003) Which referring expression? Using
Centering Theory to explain reference in spoken
Spanish. Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science.
Vancouver. February 2003. (Invited presentation).
Conference
Presentations
- Ehret, K. and M. Taboada (2019) Variational
dimensions of online comments: exploring a new
register. ICLAVE 10, International Conference on
Language Variation in Europe. Leeuwarden,
Netherlands. June 2019.
- Goddard, C., M. Taboada and R. Trnavac (2019). The
English [adverb-ly adjective] construction:
Classification and distribution across corpora and
registers. CLA, Canadian Linguistics Association.
Vancouver. June 2019.
- Ehret, K. and M. Taboada (2019) Describing registers
on the web: complexity and subjectivity in online
comments and opinion articles. CAAL, Canadian
Association for Applied Linguistics. Vancouver.
June 2019.
- Goddard, C., M. Taboada and R. Trnavac (2018)
Hilariously ridiculous and other adverb-adjective
combinations: Classification and frequency
distribution across registers. 4th Meeting of the
American Pragmatics Association. Albany, NY.
November 2018.
- Ehret, K. and M. Taboada (2018) Are online comments
like conversations? A multi-dimensional exploration of
online news comments. 4th Meeting of the American
Pragmatics Association. Albany, NY. November
2018.
- Kolhatkar, V. and M. Taboada (2018) A corpus for the
analysis of online news comments. 2nd Workshop on
Widening Natural Language Processing (WiNLP).
New Orleans, LA. June 2018.
- Das, D. and M. Taboada (2018) Multiple signals of
coherence relations. Workshop on Implicit and
Explicit Marking of Discourse Relations.
Osnabrück, Germany. May 2018.
- Pappas, P., M. Taboada and K. Alexander (2018)
Teaching linguistic argumentation through a
writing-intensive approach. 92nd Annual Meeting of
the Linguistic Society of America. Salt Lake
City, UT. January 2018. (Poster presentation).
- Pappas, P., M. Taboada and K. Alexander (2017)
Teaching linguistic argumentation through a
writing-intensive approach. 9th Annual Conference
of the Canadian Association for the Study of
Writing. Toronto, ON. May 2017.
- Taboada, M., R. Trnavac and C. Goddard (2016) On
being negative. 3rd International Conference of
the American Pragmatics Association.
Bloomington, Indiana. November 2016.
- Aloy Mayo, M. and M. Taboada (2015) Conflict in
digital discourse: Cosmopolitan and the US
2014 midterm elections. 1st International
Conference on Approaches to Digital Discourse
Analysis.Valencia, Spain. November 2015.
- Benamara, F. and M. Taboada (2015) Towards a unified
discourse relations hierarchy. 14th International
Pragmatics Conference (IPrA). Antwerp, Belgium.
Panel presentation. July 2015.
- Goddard, C., M. Taboada and R. Trnavac (2015) Stunning,
complex, powerful: The lexical semantics of
English evaluative adjectives. 2nd Appraisal
Symposium. Sydney, Australia. February 2015.
- Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada (2014) Discourse
structure and attitudinal valence of opinion words in
sentiment extraction. 88th Annual Meeting of the
Linguistic Society of America. Minneapolis,
MN. Poster. January 2014.
- Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada (2013) Discourse
relations and affective content in the expression of
sentiment in texts. 11th ICGL Conference –
Workshop on The semantic field of emotions:
Interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic approaches.
Rhodes, Greece. September 2013.
- Das, D. and M. Taboada (2013) Signalling of subject
matter and presentational coherence relations: A
corpus study. 2013 Meeting of the Linguistic
Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS)
, New York, USA. August 2013.
- Elouazizi, N., M. Taboada and N. Hedberg (2013)
Ostensive demonstratives in multimodal contexts. 19th
International Congress of Linguists. Geneva,
Switzerland. July 2013.
- N. Elouazizi and M. Taboada (2012) Ostension and the
nature of multimodal referential relations. 11th
Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language
Conference. Vancouver, Canada. May 2012.
- R. Tranavac and M. Taboada (2012) Backwards anaphora
marking in coherence relations. 11th Conceptual
Structure, Discourse and Language Conference.
Vancouver, Canada. May 2012.
- M. Taboada and R. Trnavac (2012) Cataphoric it
from the point of view of coherence relations. 86th
Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
Portland, OR. January 2012.
- M. Carretero and M. Taboada (2011) Appraisal in
English and Spanish consumer reviews of books and
movies: A contrastive study of the expression of
Graduation within the scope of Attitude.
Int-Eval, International Workshop on the Evaluative
Function of Language. Madrid, Spain. October
2011.
- M. Carretero and M. Taboada (2011) Annotating
Appraisal: contrastive issues raised in the analysis
of consumer reviews in English and Spanish.38 th
International Systemic Functional Linguistic
Congress. Lisbon, Portugal. July 2011.
- Taboada, M. and MLA Gómez-González (2010) Discourse
markers and coherence relations: Comparison across
markers, languages and modalities. 6th
International Contrastive Linguistics Conference
(ICLC6). Berlin, Germany. October 2010. Presentation slides.
- Taboada, M. and M. Carretero (2010) Labelling
evaluative language in English and Spanish: The case
of Attitude in consumer reviews. 6th
International Contrastive Linguistics Conference
(ICLC6). Berlin, Germany. October 2010. Presentation slides.
- Carretero, M. and M. Taboada (2010) The annotation
of Appraisal: How Attitude and epistemic modality
overlap. 4th International Conference on Modality
in English (ModE4). Madrid, Spain. September
2010.
- Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada (2010) Contribution of
(non)veridical rhetorical relations to evaluation in
discourse. 37th International Systemic Functional
Linguistics Congress. Vancouver. July 2010.
- Carretero, M. and M. Taboada (2010) Products,
consumers and evaluation: a proposal of solutions to
problematic issues of Attitude in English and Spanish
consumer reviews. 22nd European Systemic
Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop.
University of Primorska, Slovenia. July 2010.
- Taboada, M. (2009) Comparable corpora for
cross-linguistic sentiment analysis.Conference of
the American Association for Corpus Linguistics. Edmonton,
Alberta. October 2009.
- Carretero, M. and M. Taboada (2009) Contrastive
analyses of Evaluation in text: Key issues raised by
the application of Appraisal Theory to corpora of
consumer-generated product reviews in English and
Spanish. I Congreso Internacional de Lingüística
de Corpus. Murcia, Spain. May 2009.
- Taboada, M., M. A. Gillies, P. McFetridge and R.
Outtrim (2008) Tracking literary reputation with text
analysis tools. Presented at the Meeting of the
Society for Digital Humanities. Vancouver. June
2008. (Poster) Abstract.
- Gillies, M. A., P. McFetridge, R. Outtrim and M.
Taboada (2008) Finding, scanning, formatting and
processing literary reviews. Presented at the
Symposium of the Center for Print and Media Studies.
SFU. May 2008.
- Taboada, M. (2005) Evaluation and subjectivity
across languages. 4th International Contrastive
Linguistics Conference. Santiago de Compostela,
Spain. September 2005.
- Taboada, M. (2004) Appraisal in monologic evaluative
text. 31 International Systemic Functional
Linguistics Conference. Kyoto, Japan. September
2004.
- Taboada, M. (2003) Anaphoric terms and focus of
attention in English and Spanish. 3rd
International Contrastive Linguistics Conference. Santiago
de Compostela, Spain. September 2003.
- Taboada, M. (2003) Discourse markers as signals (or
not) of rhetorical relations in conversation. International
Pragmatics Association. Toronto. July 2003.
Poster.
- Taboada, M. (2002) Cohesion across languages. 14th
Euro-International Systemic Functional Workshop.
Lisbon. July 2002.
- Taboada, M. (2002) Foco y pronominalización en la
lengua hablada. ALFAL, Asociación de Lingüística y
Filología de América Latina. Costa Rica.
February 2002.
- Taboada, M. (2001) Conversation as product and
process: A rhetorical view. 28th International
Systemic Functional Congress. Ottawa. July
2001.
- Taboada, M. (2001) Conversation building strategies
in English and in Spanish. Canadian Association
for Applied Linguistics. Québec City. May 2001.
- Taboada, M. (2001) Géneros del discurso cotidiano. Canadian
Association of Hispanists. Québec City. May
2001.
- Taboada, M. (2001) The genre structure of bulletin
board messages. COCH/COSH, Consortium for
Computing in the Humanities. Québec City. May
2001.
- Taboada, M. (2000) Collaborating through Talk: A
Cross-Linguistic Perspective on Task-Oriented
Communication. Presented at a meeting of the Discourse
Research Group, University of Alberta. January 2000.
- Taboada, M. (2000) Constructing Coherence in
Dialogue: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Simon Fraser
University, Department of Linguistics. January 2000.
Also presented at the University of Pittsburgh,
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures,
January 2000 and at the University of British
Columbia, Department of Linguistics, February 2000.
- Taboada, M. (1999) Different Languages in Similar
Contexts: The Pragmatics of the Situation. Presented
at the Panel on Cross-Cultural Pragmatics. Modern
Language Association (MLA) Convention. Chicago,
USA. December 1999.
- Taboada, M. (1999) Turnos de habla espontáneos, o
Qué hacer cuando nadie dice 'cambio'. Presented
at the International Conference on the Semantics
and Pragmatics of Spanish. Ohio State
University, USA. November 1999.
- Taboada, M. (1999) Constructing Cohesion in
Dialogue. Department of Modern Languages and Cultural
Studies, Linguistic Circle Lecture Series.
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. October 1999.
- Taboada, M. (1999) Cohesion as a Measure in Generic
Analysis. Presented at the 26th LACUS Forum. University
of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. August 1999.
Awarded the President's Prize for best pre-doctoral
presentation at the 26th LACUS Forum.
- Taboada, M. (1997) Conversation as Text: Analyzing
Thematic Patterns in Dialogue. Presented at the Alberta
Conference in Linguistics, ACOL. Banff, Canada.
October, 1997.
- Taboada, M. (1997) Contextual Information for
Disambiguation in a Speech-to-Speech Translation
System. Presented at the 24th International
Systemic-Functional Conference, ISFC '97.
Toronto, Canada. July 1997.
- Lavid, J., Downing, A., Taboada, M. and Alonso, I.
Socio-cultural factors and information progression
strategies in multilingual administrative forms.
Presented at the 7th International
Systemic-Functional Workshop. Valencia, Spain.
July, 1995.
- Lavid, J. and Taboada, M. Toward a contrastive
specification of theme options in a multilingual
setting: German, Italian, Spanish, and English. Paper
presented at the 7th International
Systemic-Functional Workshop. Valencia, Spain.
July, 1995.
- Lavid, J. and Taboada, M. Expressing Conditions in
Multilingual Instructions: Towards a Computational
Specification of Theme Options. Paper presented at the
22nd International Systemic-Functional Congress.
Beijing, China. July, 1995.
Reviews
- Duque, E. Las relaciones del discurso.
Madrid: Arco. In Círculo de Lingüistica Aplicada
a la Comunicación 68: 436-441. December 2016. Link
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Volume V. London/New York: Routledge. In
LINGUIST List, 12.2917. November 2001. Link
- Young, S. and Bloothooft, G. (eds.) (1997) Corpus-Based
Methods in Language and Speech Processing.
Dordrecht: Kluwer.
In Functions of Language 5.1, 1998.