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• Taboada, M. (2004) Building Coherence and Cohesion: Task-Oriented Dialogue in English and Spanish. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. ISBN: 1 58811 563 1.
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  • Reviewed in: LINGUIST List, Computational Linguistics (subscription), ITL, International Journal of Applied Linguistics (subscription), University of Toronto Quarterly, Discourse and Society

Edited Book

• Taboada, M., S. Doval Suárez and E. González Álvarez (eds.) (to appear, 2012) Contrastive discourse analysis: Functional and corpus perspectives. London: Equinox.

Journal Articles

• Trnavac, R. and M. Taboada (to appear) The contribution of nonveridical rhetorical relations to evaluation in discourse. Language Sciences.
• Taboada, M., J. Brooke, M. Tofiloski, K. Voll and M. Stede (2011) Lexicon-Based Methods for Sentiment Analysis. Computational Linguistics 37 (2): 267-307. (Pre-final version).
• 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. Digital Object Identifier (http://www.doi.org/): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2005.09.010
• 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.

• Taboada, M. and MLA Gómez-González (to appear) Discourse markers and coherence relations: Comparison across markers, languages and modalities. In M. Taboada, S. Doval Suárez and E. González Álvarez (eds.), Contrastive discourse analysis: Functional and corpus perspectives. London: Equinox.
• Taboada, M. and M. Carretero (to appear) 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. In M. Taboada, S. Doval Suárez and E. González Álvarez (eds.), Contrastive discourse analysis: Functional and corpus perspectives. London: Equinox.
• 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.
  • Also on line in Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación/ Circle of Linguistics Applied to Communication/ clac, 3, September 2000. ISSN 1576-4737. http://www.ucm.es/info/circulo/no3/index.htm

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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. (Invited plenary presentation).
• 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. (2008) Implicit and explicit coherence relations. 18th Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Memphis, July 2008. (Invited presentation).
• 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. and L. Hadic Zabala (2007) Subjects and topics in conversation. 10th International Pragmatics Conference. Göteborg, Sweden. July 2007. (Invited panel presentation).
• 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
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• 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).
• 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.
  

• Kasher, A. (ed.) Pragmatics: Critical Concepts. Volume V. London/New York: Routledge. In LINGUIST List, 12.2917. November 2001. (http://linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-2917.html)
• Young, S. and Bloothooft, G. (eds.) (1997) Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
  In Functions of Language 5.1, 1998.