Welcome to Alias Technology!

Alias Technology - Mission & Philosophy

In some criminal, civil, and security matters, language can be evidence. A suicide note, a threatening letter, anonymous communications, business emails, blog posts, trademarks --all of these can help investigators, attorneys, human resource executives and private individuals understand the heart of an incident. When you are faced with a suspicious document, whether you need to know who wrote it, or if it is a real threat or a real suicide note, or if it is too close for comfort to some other document, ALIAS Technology LLC can help you. We provide a unique service of using forensically-feasible computational tools for handling language as evidence. Our service regarding authorship identification has been deemed fully admissible in both Federal and State Courts under both the Daubert and Frye standards for scientific evidence. But most importantly, our service has helped clients get to the truth of a matter and determine their best strategy.

ALIAS is our core software product through which we provide our services.

For current research and development projects, visit our sister organization ILE.

Our Mission

  • To serve private individuals, small businesses, corporations, law enforcement, private investigators, prosecutors, public defenders, plaintiff and defense attorneys, executive security consultants, national defense and security agencies.
  • To provide proven and reliable methods for answering forensically significant questions about language
  • To provide admissible linguistic evidence
  • We do not over-state or over-generalize the robustness of the analytical methods we perform.We readily admit the limitations of data in forensic settings

Our Philosophy

  • Integrity is the foundation for joy and peace. We do not risk our integrity.
  • We readily admit the limitations, as well as the robustness, of reliable scientific methods under specific conditions. We do not try to make something work when it doesn't.
  • We seek to develop, through continuous research, analytical methods which will perform robustly on forensic data. We persist.
  • We do not over-state or over-generalize the robustness of the analytical methods we perform.We readily admit the limitations of data in forensic settings.

The Kinds of Questions We Can Answer

Who authored this document?
Who was at the keyboard?
Is this threatening letter real?
Is this suicide note authentic?
Was the author a native speaker of English? How close are these texts?
Did this text come from that one?
Are these witness statements independent? How similar are these trademarks?
Is the person who signed this the actual author?
Case consulting Investigative support
Expert testimony

Automated

We automate our methods through computer programs so that our methods are objective, not undermined by human fatigue, and as fast as we can possibly make them.

Linguistic

Our methods are built on fundamental principles of modern linguistic theory. We apply current knowledge from linguistics to solve forensic problems. We use computational linguistics to implement these applications.

Identification

Our classification methods focus on identifying authorship through comparing known documents to any questioned document(s).

Assessment

Our assessment methods focus on determining the authenticity of threats and suicide notes, the similarity of trademarks and service marks, and the relationship between documents