Episode 21 | Professor Maite Taboada & Dr Katharina Ehret on Fake News

CorpusCast is the podcast about corpus linguistics and what it can do for society. Join Dr Robbie Love as he speaks with top researchers in the field to find out more about how corpus linguistics – the study of linguistic patterns in large samples of language – is applied to a diverse range of areas including health, social justice and education. On this episode, Robbie chats to Professor Maite Taboada and Dr Katharina Ehret. Professor Taboada is Distinguished SFU Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University and Dr Ehret is Research Associate in English Linguistics. Maite is a linguist working at the intersection of discourse analysis and computational linguistics. In discourse analysis, Maite studies the mechanisms for coherence in discourse. In computational linguistics, Maite develops methods and algorithms to process and exploit discourse structure in different applications, such as discourse parsing or sentiment analysis. Katharina’s research is rooted in quantitative variationist linguistics, focussing on language complexity, its variation and its relationship to extra-linguistic pressures. The SFU Opinions and Comments Corpus contains 10,339 opinion articles together with their 663,173 comments from the main Canadian daily newspaper in English, The Globe and Mail, from 2012-2016. Dr Robbie Love 👉 https://bit.ly/3Zcgo36 Professor Maite Taboada 👉 https://bit.ly/3OMA8Gp Aston Centre for Applied Linguistics 👉 https://bit.ly/3QKHcSF School of Social Sciences and Humanities 👉 https://bit.ly/3JCRAd1 Find out more about courses related to this show 👉 https://bit.ly/3pR705k #linguistics #corpuslinguistics #astonuniversity --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com..../pod/show/corpuscast