by Carole Chaski | Oct 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
The schedule for the TALE 2015 annual winter meeting is ready and available at the TALE Conferences page. TALE winter meeting is held with our sister society the Linguistic Society of America, this year in Portland, OR. Highlights: a joint LSA/TALE symposium on...
by Carole Chaski | Mar 20, 2014 | Daubert standards, forensic linguistics, forensic science, ground truth data, legal evidence, science, validation testing
Recently a case in Texas has highlighted the idea that the law can respond to changes in forensic science, especially when a previously accepted forensic technique is shown to be “junk science.” The case is reported about in the Texas Public radio website...
by Carole Chaski | Oct 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Through a Google Alert, I found out about Andrew Hodges, MD who is being touted as originator of a new, cutting edge “psycholinguistic” technique of “reading between the lines” and being able to show people confessing to crimes that they are...
by Carole Chaski | Oct 25, 2012 | ethics, forensic science, Uncategorized
Check out this article about Sgt Larry Barksdale http://journalstar.com/news/local/education/former-police-officer-sharing-a-lifetime-of-experience/article_833c79b4-00fd-543e-8de0-3b7eab673182.html This is a great tribute to a great forensic scientist...
by Carole Chaski | Oct 16, 2012 | forensic linguistics, forensic science
In the Spring semester (Spring 2013), I’ll be teaching a graduate seminar at George Washington University in Washington DC. The Course FORS 6290 Selected Topics; Forensic Linguistics will meet at the Mount Vernon Campus, Ames B104 on Monday evenings 6:10 pm to...
by Carole Chaski | Oct 16, 2012 | author identification, authorship attribution, confidentiality, ground truth data, validation testing
Last week I participated in the Authorship Attribution Workshop at Brooklyn Law School, funded by NSF and hosted by Larry Solan. It was great to meet people whose work I’ve followed and only communicated with through email (Moshe Koppel, Carl Vogel, Statis...
by Carole Chaski | Sep 11, 2012 | ethics, forensic linguistics, forensic science
With the counsel of ILE and TALE advisors, I started a LinkedIn group on August 30, 2012. This group –Forensic Linguistic Evidence– is an open group for discussions. So far, it has over 70 members and a few research projects are coming out of the...
by Carole Chaski | Aug 22, 2012 | credentials, ethics, expert witness, forensic linguistics, forensic science, science
Science is a very humbling profession. The fundamental stance of real science is doubting oneself, being skeptic about what one thinks, and questioning everything until you have found enough evidence to move past those doubts (on to some other ones, of course). One of...
by Carole Chaski | Aug 17, 2012 | corpus linguistics, ethics, forensic linguistics, forensic science, work product
I am reading Tony McEnery and Andrew Hardie’s new textbook, Corpus Linguistics, published by Cambridge University Press as I’ll be reviewing it for a journal. I am so impressed with one of their chapters I just have to mention it now. McEnery and Hardie...
by Carole Chaski | Aug 7, 2012 | author identification, Daubert standards, expert witness, forensic science, Frye standard
When I arrived at the National Institute of Justice to begin my Visiting Research Fellowship in 1995, my program manager Dick Rau mentioned that he had a job for me. I was expected to provide some technical support to NIJ staff, but I certainly did not expect what...
