We hope to achieve significant precision on the task of identifying users from their writings with the end-goal of recognizing the authors of anonymous answers on Quora. Previous work indicates that writing style harbors essential cues about authors and we believe that deep learning is a powerful tool to extract such features to distinguish between the various writing styles that people have. T...

Psychopathy involves a series of specifi c cognitive, social and emotional features which make the psychopath different from the general population; the two most signifi cant characteristics are extreme selfi shness and deep emotional defi cit that is refl ected in apathy. Notably, psychopaths are skilled communicators who that use language to lie. As there has been little examination of the sp...

The focus of this article is forensic linguistics as applied to gender-based violence (GBV), a current social problem which persists despite the many measures adopted eradicate it. Gender-based leads different kinds crimes, have been studied from several perspectives such psychology, criminology and law. In preliminary study GBV crimes in Italy particular, we aim provide review research literat...

Despite the mounting evidence that variation and variability play an important role in spoken language processing, few speech researchers have investigated the relationship between dialect variation and human speech perception. Sociolinguists, on the other hand, have extensively documented linguistic variation and its social implications, but have largely ignored how dialect variation is percei...

This article is a response to Hermann Künzel’s article ‘Beware of the “telephone effect”: the influence of telephone transmission on the measurement of formant frequencies’ (Forensic Linguistics 8(1), 80–99). There, he shows convincingly that the evaluation of formant frequencies, notably F1, is affected by the band-pass filter effect of telephone transmission. This response does not question h...

The article reviews the key principles of forensic linguistic research conducted within framework linguistics: linguistic, author’s, analysis video and sound recordings examination intellectual property objects. They are objectivity, comprehensiveness completeness study, consistency, scientific validity, necessity sufficiency, verifiability, criteria orientation, accessibility description study...

Abstract There are many different ways in which modern Corpus Linguistics can be used to enrich and broaden our understanding of legal discourse. Based on the central principle co-occurrence co-selection language construction, this paper reviews current applications area discourse focusing issues ranging from phraseology, variation discourse, translation, register genre perspectives forensic co...

Text Mining has opened a vast array of possibilities concerning automatic information retrieval from large amounts of text documents. A variety of themes and types of documents can be easily analyzed. More complex features such as those used in Forensic Linguistics can gather deeper understanding from the documents, making possible performing difficult tasks such as author identification. In th...