Forensic Authorship Analysis and the World Wide Web [electronic resource] /
Larner, S.author.
Implementing a novel method for identifying idiolectal co-selections, and taking the UNABOM investigation as a case study, this Pivot evaluates the effectiveness and reliability of using the web for forensic purposes.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: The UNABOM Investigation; 1.1 Idiolect; 1.2 Lexis as a marker of authorship; 1.3 Central research question and research aims; 1.4 Overview of the research; 2 The Web as Corpus and Authorship Attribution; 2.1 The web; 2.2 The nature of search engines; 2.3 The reliability of search engines; 2.4 The web as corpus; 2.5 Searching the web to produce forensic linguistics evidence; 3 Attributing Documents to Unknown Authors Using Idiolectal Co-selection and the Web; 3.1 Data and method; 3.2 Targeted searches
3.3 Web searches using commercial search engines4 Attributing Documents to Candidate Authors Using Idiolectal Co-selection and the Web; 4.1 Data and method; 4.2 Targeted searches; 4.3 Web searches using commercial search engines; 5 The Suitability of the Web for Producing Forensic Evidence; 5.1 UNABOM revisited; 5.2 Idiolectal co-selection as a marker of authorship; 5.3 Using the web as a corpus for producing forensic evidence; 5.4 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Implementing a novel method for identifying idiolectal co-selections, and taking the UNABOM investigation as a case study, this Pivot evaluates the effectiveness and reliability of using the web for forensic purposes.
Sociolinguistics.
Applied linguistics.
Corpora (Linguistics).
Creative writing.
Sociolinguistics.
Applied Linguistics.
Corpus Linguistics.
Creative Writing.