Publications

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

  1. 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

  1. 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).
  2. 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.
  3. Taboada, M. and R. Trnavac (eds.) (2013) Nonveridicality and evaluation: Theoretical, computational and corpus approaches. Leiden: Brill.
  4. 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.
  5. 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

  1. 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.
  2. Gómez-González, MLA and M. Taboada (to appear) Concession strategies in online newspaper comments. Journal of Pragmatics.
  3. Ehret, K. and M. Taboada (to appear) The interplay of complexity and subjectivity in opinionated discourse. Discourse Studies.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Viera, C. and M. Taboada (2021) Aplicación de la lingüística sistémico-funcional al análisis de conferencias académicas. Revista Signos 54(105): 277-301.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Das, D. and M. Taboada (2019) Multiple signals of coherence relations. Discours 24: 3-38.
  12. 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.
  13. Taboada, M. (2019) The space of coherence relations and their signalling in discourse. Language, Context and Text 1(2): 205-233.
  14. Pappas, P., M. Taboada and K. Alexander (2019) Teaching linguistic argumentation through a writing-intensive approach. Language (Teaching Linguistics Section) 95(3): e339-e363.
  15. 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.
  16. Das, D. and M. Taboada (2018) Signalling of coherence relations in discourse. Discourse Processes 55(8): 743-770.
  17. Das, D. and M. Taboada (2018) RST Signalling Corpus: A corpus of signals of coherence relations. Language Resources and Evaluation 52(1): 149-184.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Taboada, M., R. Trnavac and C. Goddard (2017) On being negative. Corpus Pragmatics 1(1): 57-76.
  21. 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.
  22. Cardoso, P., M. Taboada and T. Pardo (2017) Subtopic annotation and topic segmentation for news texts. Corpora 12(1): 23–54.
  23. 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.
  24. Trnavac, R., D. Das and M. Taboada (2016) Discourse relations and evaluation. Corpora 11(2): 169-190.
  25. Taboada, M. (2016) Sentiment analysis: An overview from linguistics. Annual Review of Linguistics. 2: 325-347.
  26. Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada (2016) Cataphora, backgrounding and accessibility in discourse. Journal of Pragmatics. 93: 68-84.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. Acartürk, C., M. Taboada and C. Habel (2013) Cohesion in multimodal documents: Effects of cross-referencing. Information Design. 20 (2): 98-110.
  30. 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.
  31. Taboada, M. and C. Habel (2013) Rhetorical relations in multimodal documents. Discourse Studies 15 (1): 59-85.
  32. 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
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada (2012) The contribution of nonveridical rhetorical relations to evaluation in discourse. Language Sciences 34 (3): 301-318.
  36. Taboada, M., J. Brooke, M. Tofiloski, K. Voll and M. Stede (2011) Lexicon-Based Methods for Sentiment Analysis. Computational Linguistics 37 (2): 267-307.
  37. Taboada, M. (2011) Stages in an online review genre. Text and Talk 31 (2): 247-269.
  38. Taboada, M. and L. Wiesemann (2010) Subjects and topics in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (7): 1816-1828.
  39. Taboada, M. and L. Hadic Zabala (2008) Deciding on units of analysis within Centering Theory. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 4 (1): 63-108.
  40. Taboada, M. (2006) Spontaneous and non-spontaneous turn-taking. Pragmatics 16(2-3): 329-360.
  41. Taboada, M. and W.C. Mann (2006) Applications of Rhetorical Structure Theory. Discourse Studies 8 (4): 567-588.
  42. Taboada, M. and W.C. Mann (2006) Rhetorical Structure Theory: Looking back and moving ahead. Discourse Studies 8(3): 423-459.
  43. Taboada, M. (2006) Discourse markers as signals (or not) of rhetorical relations. Journal of Pragmatics 38(4): 567-592.
  44. Taboada, M. (2004) The genre structure of bulletin board messages. Text Technology 13 (2): 55-82.
  45. 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.
  46. Taboada, M. and J. Lavid (2003) Rhetorical and thematic patterns in scheduling dialogues: A generic characterization. Functions of Language. 10 (2): 147-179.
  47. Taboada, M. (2003) Modeling task-oriented dialogue. Computers and the Humanities. 37 (4): 431-454.
  48. Taboada, M. (2002) Foco y pronominalización en la lengua hablada: Una primera aproximación. Documentos de Español Actual 3-4: 173-200.

Book Chapters

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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).
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Taboada, M. (2009) Implicit and explicit coherence relations. In J. Renkema (ed.) Discourse, of Course. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 127-140.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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).
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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

  1. 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.
  2. Asr, F.T. and M. Taboada (2019) MisInfoText. A collection of news articles with 'false' and 'true' labels.
  3. 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.
  4. Das, D., M. Taboada and P. McFetridge (2015) RST Signalling Corpus. LDC2015T10. Distributed through the Linguistic Data Consortium.
  5. Taboada, M. and L. Wiesemann (2011) SFU Centering Corpus. Simon Fraser University.
  6. Taboada, M. (2008) The SFU Review Corpus. Simon Fraser University.
  7. Taboada, M. and J. Renkema (2008) Discourse Relations Reference Corpus. Simon Fraser University and Tilburg University.

Technical Reports and Other Publications

  1. Gautam, V. and M. Taboada (2019) Constructiveness and Toxicity in Online News Comments. Report. Simon Fraser University. November 2019.
  2. Stede, M., M. Taboada and D. Das (2017) Annotation Guidelines for Rhetorical Structure. Manuscript. University of Potsdam and Simon Fraser University. March 2017.
  3. 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.
  4. Das, D. and M. Taboada (2014). RST Signalling Corpus Annotation Manual. Manuscript. Simon Fraser University. September 2014.
  5. 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.
  6. Hadic Zabala, Loreley and Maite Taboada. Centering Theory in Spanish: Coding Manual. Manuscript. Simon Fraser University. June 2006.
  7. 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.
  8. Taboada, M. Theme Markedness in English and Spanish: A Systemic-Functional Approach. Manuscript. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. May 1995.

Theses

  1. 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
  2. Taboada, M. (May 1997) Discourse Information for Disambiguation: The Phoenix Approach in JANUS. M.Sc. Thesis. Carnegie Mellon University.

Plenary and Invited Presentations

  1. Taboada, M.(2020) Rhetorical relations in discourse and in cognition. Abralin ao Vivo (online). June 2020.
  2. Taboada, M. (2019) Managing comments and misinformation online with text classification techniques. 32nd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Kingston, Ontario. May 2019. (Plenary presentation).
  3. Taboada, M. (2019) Fantastic online comments and how to find them. 11th International Corpus Linguistics Conference. Valencia, Spain. May 2019. (Plenary presentation).
  4. Taboada, M. (2017) Language and social media: Opportunities for the EAL classroom. BC-TEAL Regional Conference. Vancouver, BC. November 2017. (Plenary presentation).
  5. 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).
  6. 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).
  7. Taboada, M. (2015) Appraisal, subjectivity, nonveridicality, coherence relations: Connections and overlaps. 42nd International Systemic Functional Congress . Aachen, Germany. July 2015. (Plenary presentation).
  8. 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).
  9. Taboada, M. (2013) Computational linguistics and discourse. STIL - The 9th Brazilian Symposium on Information and Human Language Technology. Fortaleza, Brazil. October 2013. (Plenary presentation).
  10. 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).
  11. Taboada, M. (2012) Implicit and explicit relations in discourse. Conference of the Swiss Society of Linguistics. Lugano, Switzerland. September 2012. (Plenary presentation)
  12. 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).
  13. Taboada, M. (2008) Implicit and explicit coherence relations. 18th Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Memphis, July 2008. (Invited workshop presentation).
  14. Taboada, M. and L. Hadic Zabala (2007) Subjects and topics in conversation. 10th International Pragmatics Conference. Göteborg, Sweden. July 2007. (Invited panel presentation).
  15. 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Das, D. and M. Taboada (2018) Multiple signals of coherence relations. Workshop on Implicit and Explicit Marking of Discourse Relations. Osnabrück, Germany. May 2018.
  8. 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).
  9. 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.
  10. Taboada, M., R. Trnavac and C. Goddard (2016) On being negative. 3rd International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association. Bloomington, Indiana. November 2016.
  11. 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.
  12. Benamara, F. and M. Taboada (2015) Towards a unified discourse relations hierarchy. 14th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA). Antwerp, Belgium. Panel presentation. July 2015.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Elouazizi, N., M. Taboada and N. Hedberg (2013) Ostensive demonstratives in multimodal contexts. 19th International Congress of Linguists. Geneva, Switzerland. July 2013.
  18. 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.
  19. R. Tranavac and M. Taboada (2012) Backwards anaphora marking in coherence relations. 11th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference. Vancouver, Canada. May 2012.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. Taboada, M. (2009) Comparable corpora for cross-linguistic sentiment analysis.Conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics. Edmonton, Alberta. October 2009.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. Taboada, M. (2005) Evaluation and subjectivity across languages. 4th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. September 2005.
  33. Taboada, M. (2004) Appraisal in monologic evaluative text. 31 International Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference. Kyoto, Japan. September 2004.
  34. Taboada, M. (2003) Anaphoric terms and focus of attention in English and Spanish. 3rd International Contrastive Linguistics Conference. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. September 2003.
  35. Taboada, M. (2003) Discourse markers as signals (or not) of rhetorical relations in conversation. International Pragmatics Association. Toronto. July 2003. Poster.
  36. Taboada, M. (2002) Cohesion across languages. 14th Euro-International Systemic Functional Workshop. Lisbon. July 2002.
  37. Taboada, M. (2002) Foco y pronominalización en la lengua hablada. ALFAL, Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina. Costa Rica. February 2002.
  38. Taboada, M. (2001) Conversation as product and process: A rhetorical view. 28th International Systemic Functional Congress. Ottawa. July 2001.
  39. Taboada, M. (2001) Conversation building strategies in English and in Spanish. Canadian Association for Applied Linguistics. Québec City. May 2001.
  40. Taboada, M. (2001) Géneros del discurso cotidiano. Canadian Association of Hispanists. Québec City. May 2001.
  41. Taboada, M. (2001) The genre structure of bulletin board messages. COCH/COSH, Consortium for Computing in the Humanities. Québec City. May 2001.
  42. 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.
  43. 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.
  44. 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.
  45. 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.
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. Taboada, M. (1997) Conversation as Text: Analyzing Thematic Patterns in Dialogue. Presented at the Alberta Conference in Linguistics, ACOL. Banff, Canada. October, 1997.
  49. 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.
  50. 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.
  51. 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.
  52. 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

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