I am Distinguished ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
Professor in the at and
a Fellow of the . I
direct the .
At ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, I am also an
Associate Member of the and
the . I
am a member of the
and the .
I am a linguist working at
the intersection of
discourse analysis and
computational linguistics.
In discourse analysis,
I study the mechanisms for
coherence in discourse. In
computational linguistics, I
develop methods and
algorithms to process and
exploit discourse structure
in different applications,
such as discourse parsing or
sentiment analysis. My
research is
interdisciplinary, at the
boundary between theoretical
and applied fields, between
the social sciences and
engineering.
Current and recent
projects:
- A project examining the
nature of online news
comments, those
posted in response to a
news article. This is a
corpus and computational
project.
- Corpus: .
Ca. 10,000 editorials
and 630,000 comments
posted on the site of
The Globe and Mail.
Publicly available.
- Computational work:
a ,
identifying
constructive comments
-- those that
contribute to the
conversation, creating
civil dialogue.
- Kolhatkar, V., H.
Wu, L. Cavasso, E.
Francis, K. Shukla and
M. Taboada (2020) .
4: 155–190.
- Kolhatkar, V., N.
Thain, J. Sorensen, L.
Dixon and M. Taboada
(2023) . 28(4).
https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i4.13163
- A project on detecting
fake news and
misinformation.
Outputs include:
- ,
a dataset of
fact-checked news
articles.
- A .
- Asr, F. T. and M.
Taboada (2019) . .
January-June 2019:
1-14.
- The ,
developed within our lab
and in collaboration with
s, monitors
the proportion of women
and men quoted in news
stories in
mainstream Canadian media
in English. analyzes
French-language media in
Canada. The research
behind these systems is
described in:
- Soumah, V-G., P. Rao,
P. Eibl and M. Taboada
(2023).
Proceedings of the
36th Canadian
Conference on
Artificial
Intelligence.
Montréal. Jun 2023.
- Rao, P. and M. Taboada
(2021) .
4(82). doi:
10.3389/frai.2021.664737.
- Asr, F.T., M. Mazraeh,
A. Lopes, V. Gautam, J.
Gonzales, P. Rao and M.
Taboada (2021) .
16(1): e0245533.
More information on these
projects is available from
the site of the . You
can also check a full
curriculum vitae (in pdf),
or consult my research,
teaching
and publications
pages. The lab also has a .