Chapter 10: Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
Maite Taboada is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Associate Member of the Cognitive Science Program and the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. She is a linguist working at the intersection of discourse analysis and computational linguistics. Her research interests within linguistics include discourse relations and evaluative language. In computational linguistics, she has worked on sentiment analysis, automatic moderation of online comments, and the language of misinformation.
Her lab, the Discourse Processing Lab at SFU, has built the Gender Gap Tracker, an online tool to track the number of men and women quoted in Canadian mainstream news media.
