Topical Issues of Expert Identification in the Forensic Authorship Studies

Abstract

Within the school of forensic expertology, in the context of modern challenges of digitalization, the current problems of forensic and expert identification are considered to establish the author of a controversial speech work posted on the Internet, an information and media language personality. Based on the analysis of the main stages of the process of expert identification of the author of the text, the need for their correction and addition is revealed in connection with significant changes in the linguistic personality manifests itself mainly in a virtual environment. The necessity of developing a classifier of the author’s idiolect features with an indication of their identification significance, as well as the use of quantitative statistical methods for analyzing speech works using computer technology, is substantiated.