Dr. Maite Taboada

Professor, Simon Fraser University

Discourse analysis, linguistics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, social media language, comments related to news, language of fake news, communication, language

Media

Computational linguistics and sentiment analysis

CHQR CalgaryRadio/Podcast

URL: https://omny.fm/shows/calgary-today-with-angela-kokott/online-trolls-echo-chambers

CKNW 980, May 10, 2018Radio/Podcast

URL: https://omny.fm/shows/charles-adler-tonight/charles-adler-tonight-internet-trolls-arent-as-bad

Online news trolls not as bad as we think

The ConversationOnline

URL: https://theconversation.com/online-news-trolls-not-as-bad-as-we-think-96157

Biography

Maite Taboada is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University. She specializes in discourse analysis and computational linguistics, including discourse relations and sentiment analysis. Her current work focuses on the analysis of online comments, drawing insights from corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and big data. She is the director of the Discourse Processing Lab at SFU. http://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada

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