Research
1. Research interests
Areas of research that I am interested in.
2. Current research projects
These are the projects for which I currently have funding. I also work in other areas (see Research Interests).
There are regular opportunities for research positions in these projects: as Research Assistant, for graduate or undergraduate students; and for graduate students to do their theses. If you are a student at SFU, or if you are considering graduate studies at SFU, and are interested in any of these areas, please get in touch with me about opportunities for research (mtaboada @ sfu.ca).
Subject, topic and focus of attention in spoken language
I am analyzing spoken language data (in Spanish and English) according to a theory of focus in discourse, Centering Theory. The aim of this research is to establish rules in the selection of pronouns in discourse (i.e., why a full noun phrase might be chosen over a pronoun to refer to the same entity).
More on the project's web page.
Computational analysis of text sentiment
This project addresses the problem of automatically extracting sentiment, or subjective content, from a text, such as a movie review, a newspaper editorial, an e-mail message.
More on the project's web page.
SCIMITAR
Santiago-Centred International Milieu for Interactional, Typological and Acquisitional Research
The official title of this project is: Discourse Analysis in English: Aspects of Cognition, Typology and Second Language Acquisition. This is an international collaboration with researchers at universities in Spain, The Netherlands, the U.K. and Canada. Principal Investigator: María de los Ángeles Gómez González (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela).
More on the project's web page.
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