Mining Text for Expert Witnesses

Dozier, Christopher; Jackson, Paul

doi:10.1109/ms.2005.70

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“…These databases were used to procure the sample because they are the types of convenient resources (as the email addresses or websites of potential expert witnesses are publically available in these databases) that are often utilized by attorneys, judges or other criminal justice actors to find an expert with knowledge or qualifications in a specific area (Dozier & Jackson, 2005). …”

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Educator of the court: the role of the expert witness in cases involving autism spectrum disorder

Berryessa

2017

Psychology, Crime & Law

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The role of the expert witness in legal contexts is to educate fact finders of the court who may have no background in the expert’s area. This role can be especially difficult for those who assist in cases involving individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). As expert assistance on ASD is crucial to ensuring just outcomes for individuals diagnosed with ASD, knowledge on how expert witnesses perceive and approach their roles, and what factors may influence these perceptions, is essential. This qualitative research utilizes semi-structured interviews with a sample of expert witnesses in cases involving ASD, analyzed using a grounded-theory constant comparative analytic approach. Data reveal that experts appear to view their roles in court as reconstructionists, educators, myth-dispellers, and most of all, communicators, actively using their testimony to fill these roles in cases. These results also allow for the development of a model that illustrates two areas that coalesce to affect how experts view their roles in court: (1) personal experiences of experts in cases in which they have been involved; and (2) influences outside experts’ personal experiences, such as their general opinions or observations regarding ASD and its relationship to the criminal justice system.

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Educator of the court: the role of the expert witness in cases involving autism spectrum disorder

Berryessa

2017

Psychology, Crime & Law

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“…After the extraction of the reference records, we merged them together to create a file in which each particular expert is listed only once. Finally, we linked the profiles to professional license records, medline articles, and newspaper articles, as outlined in [4].…”

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Generating Value from Textual Discovery

Jackson

2007

Computational Science – ICCS 2007

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Abstract. Much of the information associated with legal, financial, medical and educational domains is stored in electronic document repositories and retrievable only by full text search. The ability of publishers to enhance such documents through traditional editorial processes struggles to keep pace with the volume and variety of textual data currently available in proprietary collections and on the Web. Fortunately, text mining tools that support the automatic classification, summarization, and linking of documents can be developed and deployed cost effectively. The outcome is a more flexible and dynamic approach to meta-data generation that does a better job of supporting the searching and browsing behaviors of information consumers. This paper describes the application of text and data mining techniques to legal information in a manner that enables powerful report generation and document recommendation services.

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“…A move away from information retrieval techniques includes text summarisation, document classification or clustering and text mining (Hotho et al, 2005;Dozier and Jackson, 2005;Fan et al, 2006;de Waal et al, 2008). In a perfect world, a forensic system could "discover" data that seems suspicious.…”

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Unsupervised discovery of relations for analysis of textual data

Louis

Engelbrecht

2011

Digital Investigation

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a b s t r a c tThis paper addresses the problem of analysing textual data for evidence discovery. A novel framework in which to perform evidence discovery is proposed in order to reduce the quantity of data to be analysed, aid the analysts' exploration of the data and enhance the intelligibility of the presentation of the data. The framework combines information extraction techniques with visual exploration techniques to provide a novel approach to performing evidence discovery, in the form of an evidence discovery system. By utilising unrestricted, unsupervised information extraction techniques, the investigator does not require input queries or keywords for searching, thus enabling the investigator to analyse portions of the data that may not have been identified by keyword searches.A preliminary study was performed to assess the usefulness of a text mining approach to evidence discovery from a text corpus in comparison with a traditional information retrieval approach. It was concluded that the novel approach to text analysis for evidence discovery presented in this paper is a viable and promising approach for consideration in digital forensics. The preliminary experiment showed that the results obtained from the evidence discovery system are sensible and useful. ª

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Mining Text for Expert Witnesses

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Educator of the court: the role of the expert witness in cases involving autism spectrum disorder

Educator of the court: the role of the expert witness in cases involving autism spectrum disorder

Generating Value from Textual Discovery

Unsupervised discovery of relations for analysis of textual data

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