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. 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.
  2. Rao, P. and M. Taboada (2021) Gender bias in the news: A scalable topic modelling and visualization framework. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence – Language and Computation 4(82). doi: 10.3389/frai.2021.664737.
  3. Ehret, K. and M. Taboada (2021) Characterising online news comments: A multi-dimensional cruise through online registers. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence – Language and Computation 4(79): 10.3389/frai.2021.643770.
  4. Cavasso, L. and M. Taboada (2021) A corpus analysis of online news comments using the Appraisal framework. JJournal of Corpora and Discourse Studies 4: 1-38.
  5. Asr, F.T., M. Mazraeh, A. Lopes, V. Gautam, J. Gonzales, P. Rao and M. Taboada (2021) The Gender Gap Tracker: Using Natural Language Processing to measure gender bias in media. PLoS ONE 16(1):  e0245533.
  6. Ehret, K. and M. Taboada (2021) The interplay of complexity and subjectivity in opinionated discourse. Discourse Studies 23(2): 141-165.
  7. Jiménez-Zafra, S., N. Cruz-Díaz, M. Taboada and M. Martín-Valdivia (2021) Negation detection for sentiment analysis: A case study in Spanish. Natural Language Engineering. 27: 225-248.
  8. Gómez-González, MLA and M. Taboada (2021) Concession strategies in online newspaper comments. Journal of Pragmatics 174: 96-116.
  9. Viera, C. and M. Taboada (2021) Aplicación de la lingüística sistémico-funcional al análisis de conferencias académicas. Revista Signos 54(105): 277-301.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Das, D. and M. Taboada (2019) Multiple signals of coherence relations. Discours 24: 3-38.
  15. 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.
  16. Taboada, M. (2019) The space of coherence relations and their signalling in discourse. Language, Context and Text 1(2): 205-233.
  17. Pappas, P., M. Taboada and K. Alexander (2019) Teaching linguistic argumentation through a writing-intensive approach. Language (Teaching Linguistics Section) 95(3): e339-e363.
  18. 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.
  19. Das, D. and M. Taboada (2018) Signalling of coherence relations in discourse. Discourse Processes 55(8): 743-770.
  20. Das, D. and M. Taboada (2018) RST Signalling Corpus: A corpus of signals of coherence relations. Language Resources and Evaluation 52(1): 149-184.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. Taboada, M., R. Trnavac and C. Goddard (2017) On being negative. Corpus Pragmatics 1(1): 57-76.
  24. 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.
  25. Cardoso, P., M. Taboada and T. Pardo (2017) Subtopic annotation and topic segmentation for news texts. Corpora 12(1): 23–54.
  26. 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.
  27. Trnavac, R., D. Das and M. Taboada (2016) Discourse relations and evaluation. Corpora 11(2): 169-190.
  28. Taboada, M. (2016) Sentiment analysis: An overview from linguistics. Annual Review of Linguistics. 2: 325-347.
  29. Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada (2016) Cataphora, backgrounding and accessibility in discourse. Journal of Pragmatics. 93: 68-84.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. Acartürk, C., M. Taboada and C. Habel (2013) Cohesion in multimodal documents: Effects of cross-referencing. Information Design. 20 (2): 98-110.
  33. 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.
  34. Taboada, M. and C. Habel (2013) Rhetorical relations in multimodal documents. Discourse Studies 15 (1): 59-85.
  35. 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
  36. 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.
  37. 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.
  38. Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada (2012) The contribution of nonveridical rhetorical relations to evaluation in discourse. Language Sciences 34 (3): 301-318.
  39. Taboada, M., J. Brooke, M. Tofiloski, K. Voll and M. Stede (2011) Lexicon-Based Methods for Sentiment Analysis. Computational Linguistics 37 (2): 267-307.
    • Most-cited paper for the journal Computational Linguistics, according to Google Scholar and to MIT Press.
    • Test of Time Award from the Association for Computational Linguistics. Citation: “This paper shows how a lexicon-based approach can be effective for sentiment analysis, and more importantly, also stable and portable across domains. Despite the current dominance of learning-based methods, lexicon-based methods for sentiment analysis keep being relevant, particularly in new domains where large training data isn’t available and where portability is crucial.”
  40. Taboada, M. (2011) Stages in an online review genre. Text and Talk 31 (2): 247-269.
  41. Taboada, M. and L. Wiesemann (2010) Subjects and topics in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (7): 1816-1828.
  42. Taboada, M. and L. Hadic Zabala (2008) Deciding on units of analysis within Centering Theory. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 4 (1): 63-108.
  43. Taboada, M. (2006) Spontaneous and non-spontaneous turn-taking. Pragmatics 16(2-3): 329-360.
  44. Taboada, M. and W.C. Mann (2006) Applications of Rhetorical Structure Theory. Discourse Studies 8 (4): 567-588.
  45. Taboada, M. and W.C. Mann (2006) Rhetorical Structure Theory: Looking back and moving ahead. Discourse Studies 8(3): 423-459.
  46. Taboada, M. (2006) Discourse markers as signals (or not) of rhetorical relations. Journal of Pragmatics 38(4): 567-592.
  47. Taboada, M. (2004) The genre structure of bulletin board messages. Text Technology 13 (2): 55-82.
  48. 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.
  49. Taboada, M. and J. Lavid (2003) Rhetorical and thematic patterns in scheduling dialogues: A generic characterization. Functions of Language. 10 (2): 147-179.
  50. Taboada, M. (2003) Modeling task-oriented dialogue. Computers and the Humanities. 37 (4): 431-454.
  51. Taboada, M. (2002) Foco y pronominalización en la lengua hablada: Una primera aproximación. Documentos de Español Actual 3-4: 173-200.

Book Chapters

  1. Taboada, M. (2021) Pragmatics and discourse analysis. In J. Bruhn de Garavito and J. W. Schwieter (eds.) Introducing Linguistics: Theoretical and applied approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 356-375.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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).
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Taboada, M. (2009) Implicit and explicit coherence relations. In J. Renkema (ed.) Discourse, of Course. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 127-140.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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. (2022) Title TBA. 5th Conference of the American Association for Pragmatics (AMPRA). Vancouver, BC.
  2. Taboada, M. (2021) The language of harmful online content. Language Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference. University of British Columbia (online). February 2021.
  3. Taboada, M. (2020) Natural Language Processing to manage harmful content online. CORE, International Computer Science Congress. Mexico City (online). December 2020.
  4. Taboada, M. (2020) Rhetorical relations in discourse and in cognition. Abralin ao Vivo (online). June 2020.
  5. Taboada, M. (2020) Closing the media gender gap with big data. Women in Data Science. Vancouver, BC. March 2020. (Keynote presentation).
  6. Taboada, M. (2019) Managing comments and misinformation online with text classification techniques. 32nd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Kingston, Ontario. May 2019. (Plenary presentation).
  7. Taboada, M. (2019) Fantastic online comments and how to find them. 11th International Corpus Linguistics Conference. Valencia, Spain. May 2019. (Plenary presentation).
  8. Taboada, M. (2017) Language and social media: Opportunities for the EAL classroom. BC-TEAL Regional Conference. Vancouver, BC. November 2017. (Plenary presentation).
  9. 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).
  10. 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).
  11. Taboada, M. (2015) Appraisal, subjectivity, nonveridicality, coherence relations: Connections and overlaps. 42nd International Systemic Functional Congress . Aachen, Germany. July 2015. (Plenary presentation).
  12. 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).
  13. Taboada, M. (2013) Computational linguistics and discourse. STIL - The 9th Brazilian Symposium on Information and Human Language Technology. Fortaleza, Brazil. October 2013. (Plenary presentation).
  14. 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).
  15. Taboada, M. (2012) Implicit and explicit relations in discourse. Conference of the Swiss Society of Linguistics. Lugano, Switzerland. September 2012. (Plenary presentation)
  16. 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).
  17. Taboada, M. (2008) Implicit and explicit coherence relations. 18th Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Memphis, July 2008. (Invited workshop presentation).
  18. Taboada, M. and L. Hadic Zabala (2007) Subjects and topics in conversation. 10th International Pragmatics Conference. Göteborg, Sweden. July 2007. (Invited panel presentation).
  19. 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).

Op-eds and Commentary

  1. M. Taboada. “Authentic language in fake news”. Items – Insights from the Social Sciences. September 7, 2021.
  2. Viera, C. and M. Taboada. “Systemic Functional Linguistics and its application to the study of academic conference presentations.” Conference Inference: Blogging the World of Conferences. May 5, 2021.
  3. M. Taboada “The coronavirus pandemic increased the visibility of women in the media, but it’s not all good news”. The Conversation. November 25, 2020.
  4. L. Chambers and M. Taboada “Who is quoted and who is elected? Media coverage of political candidates”. Canadian Science Policy Centre. November 3, 2020.
  5.  M. Taboada “Corpus linguistics, news media and social good” Newsletter of the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics (AELINCO). February 2020.
  6. Gautam, V. and M. Taboada. “Hey Tyee commenters! Scholars studied you. Here's what they found”. The Tyee. November 6, 2019.
  7. M. Taboada and F. Torabi Asr. “Tracking the gender gap in Canadian media”. The Conversation. February 3, 2019.
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