Maite聽Taboada
Distinguished Professor at Simon Fraser University
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolMaite Taboada is a Distinguished Professor at Simon Fraser University with a deep interdisciplinary background in computational linguistics, discourse analysis, and sentiment analysis, combining a PhD in English Linguistics with an M.Sc. from Carnegie Mellon. Over two decades in academia, she leads research on social media language and discourse, directing the SFU Discourse Lab and maintaining a substantial publication record. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics and practical NLP, producing tools and analyses that help interpret opinion and interactional patterns online. Based in Greater Vancouver, she brings a rare blend of philological training and computational expertise, applying rigorous discourse methods to contemporary problems in social media and sentiment.
10 years of coding experience
Licenciatura (M.A. Equivalent), English Philology, Licenciatura (M.A. Equivalent), English Philology at Universidad Complutense de MadridM.Sc., Computational Linguistics, M.Sc., Computational Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University
Spanish, German
Github Skills (33)
negation10
text-analysis10
sentiment10
text-mining10
scrape9
fastapi9
language-processing9
nltk9
natural-language-processing9
topic-modeling9
sentiment-analysis9
nlp9
corpus8
sentence-similarity8
python8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sfu-discourse-lab/Misinformation_detection
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
Project on detecting misinformation and fake news
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
sfu-discourse-lab/MDA_project
Mar 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 push in 6 years
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