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...
