Disputed authorship in US Law

Mcmenamin, Gerald

doi:10.1558/sll.2004.11.1.73

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“…This has been a matter of some debate; as recently as 200l, Tiersma and Solan (cited in [102]) cited disputed authorship cases as a "problem area" in forensic linguistics, while McMenamin disagreed. From a principled standpoint, there is ample reason to be concerned about many individual techniques and methods.…”

Section: Admissibility Of Authorship Attributionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Authorship Attribution

Juola

2007

FNT in Information Retrieval

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Authorship attribution, the science of inferring characteristics of the author from the characteristics of documents written by that author, is a problem with a long history and a wide range of application. Recent work in "non-traditional" authorship attribution demonstrates the practicality of automatically analyzing documents based on authorial style, but the state of the art is confusing. Analyses are difficult to apply, little is known about type or rate of errors, and few "best practices" are available. In part because of this confusion, the field has perhaps had less uptake and general acceptance than is its due.This review surveys the history and present state of the discipline, presenting some comparative results when available. It shows, first, that the discipline is quite successful, even in difficult cases involving small documents in unfamiliar and less studied languages; it further analyzes the types of analysis and features used and tries to determine characteristics of well-performing systems, finally formulating these in a set of recommendations for best practices.

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Section: Admissibility Of Authorship Attributionmentioning

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Authorship Attribution

Juola

2007

FNT in Information Retrieval

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“…Forensic stylistics was first proposed in work by McMenamin (1993McMenamin ( , 2001McMenamin ( , 2002McMenamin ( , 2004McMenamin ( , 2010. He claimed that any writing sample exhibits the author's personal style with their individual patterns of sociolinguistic variation and aggregate sets of habitual linguistic choices taken from the stock of linguistic alternatives held in common within the speech community (McMenamin 2010: 492).…”

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Historical sociolinguistics and authorship elucidation in medieval private written correspondence:

Espinosa

Campoy²

2021

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Corpora of historical correspondence and their social metadata offers a very useful archival source to carry out studies in Historical Sociolinguistics. However, illiteracy among female population and the subsequent use of scribes make authorship and gender constitute some of the most controversial socio-demographic issues when doing sociohistorical research. Letters might not have been autographs but rather dictated to a scribe, which can lead to the distortion of findings concerning authorship and gender-based patterns, from the perspective of sociolinguistic variation. On the other hand, Forensic Linguistics appeared as a branch of Applied Linguistics to assist the law in legal processes, where authorship elucidation is often one of the most disputed questions. In this paper we will present an overview of the main approaches to authorship attribution within Forensic Linguistics and relate them to sociohistorical data in the case of the letters by Margery Paston, putting their theorical tenets and techniques to the test of time. The data suggests that formal (spelling) features are less indicative of authorship than other morphosyntactic markers. Forensic Linguistics and Historical Sociolinguistics can mutually benefit each other, by sharing their expertise in authorship research and its application to current and historical texts in their social context

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“…Extremism in all its manifestations leads to the violation of civil peace and harmony, undermines public security and state integrity of the Russian Federation, creates a real threat to the preservation of the foundations of the constitutional system, interethnic and inter-confessional harmony. The extreme manifestation of extremism is terrorism, which is based on the extremist ideology (McMenamin, 2004).…”

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