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Texas Court Responds to Junk Science

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...

Newspaper Article Profiling ILE Advisor and TALE Founder Larry Barksdale

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 and crime...

Forensic Linguistics Course at George Washington University

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...

LinkedIn Group: Forensic Linguistic Evidence

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...

Science and Humility in Forensic Science

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...

Ethics and Collecting Forensic Linguistics Data from the Web

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...
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