Dr. Carole E. Chaski is the President and CEO of ALIAS Technology LLC, which she founded in 2007. She is responsible for the vision of the company, overseeing research and development projects with the Institute for Linguistic Evidence, and consulting services as a qualified expert in forensic linguistics and questioned document examination.
While she was teaching linguistics at North Carolina State University (1990-1994), she was contacted by Detective W. Allison Blackman of the Raleigh Major Crimes Unit regarding the authorship of suicide notes left on a home computer. Using syntactic and statistical analysis, Dr Chaski was able to show that the decedent had not authored the suicide notes, and that one roommate was a likely author. During the trial of North Carolina v Joseph Mannino for the murder of Michael Hunter, Mr Mannino confessed on the witness stand that he had authored the suicide notes.
After another case with similar results, Dr Chaski sought and won a Visiting Research Fellowship (1995-1998) at the US Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice, Office of Science and Technology, Investigative and Forensic Sciences Division, where she began the validation testing which has become an increasingly important aspect of forensic sciences since the Daubert ruling. Dr Chaski has consulted as an expert witness in Federal and State Courts in the United States, in Canada and in The Hague. Her clients include major law firms, major corporate human resources, Federal, State and local law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, defense attorneys, plaintiff attorneys, security consultants and private individuals working with attorneys and police detectives. Dr Chaski developed --and continues to develop-- ALIAS: Automated Linguistic Identification and Assessment System in order to provide objective measurements for statistical analysis. She has provided testimony using ALIAS, without any restrictions on her ability to state conclusions, after Daubert and Frye hearings in Federal and State courts.
Carole is the Executive Director of the Institute for Linguistic Evidence, the first non-profit research organization devoted to linguistic evidence, and the Executive Director of the Marylee Chaski Charitable Corporation, a private foundation supporting the life cycle of literacy through grants and scholarships.
