Multimedia and Popular Press

 
Publications
Book Chapters:


2010. “Linguistics as a Forensic Science: The Case of Author Identification.” In Susan Behrens and Judith A. Parker, editors. Language in the Real World. Routledge.


2008. “The Computational-Linguistic Approach to Forensic Authorship Attribution.” In Frances Olsen, Alexander Lorz, and Dieter Stein, editors.  Law and Language: Theory and Practice. Düsseldorf University Press.


2008. “Authorship Attribution in a Multinational Corporate Setting.” With Mary Snider Boldt. In Frances Olsen, Alexander Lorz, and Dieter Stein, editors. Law and Language: Theory and Practice. Düsseldorf University Press.


2007. “The Keyboard Dilemma and Author Identification.”  In Sujeet Shinoi and Philip Craiger, editors. Advances in Digital Forensics III. New York: Springer.  Chaski_2007KeyboardDilemmaChapter.pdf


  1. 2005.“Forensic Linguistics, Author Identification and Admissibility.” In Cyril Wecht and John Rago, editors. Foundations of Forensic Science and Law: Investigative Applications in Criminal, Civil and Family Justice. Boca Raton: CRC Press.


Academic Peer-Reviewed Articles:


2007. “Identifying Authorship by Byte-Level N-Grams: The Source Code Author Profile (SCAP) Method.” International Journal of Digital Evidence, Spring 2007, Volume 6:1.

With G. Frantzeskou, E. Stamatatos, S. Gritzalis, and B. S. Howald.


2006. (accepted and withdrawn due to editorial conduct). “Discriminant Function Analysis Results for Authorship Attribution in the Forensic Setting.” International Journal of Speech, Language and Law.


2005. “Computational Stylistics in Forensic Author Identification.” Proceedings of the SIGIR 2005 Workshop on Stylistics. ACM SIGIR 2005, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.


2005. “Discriminant Function Analysis in Forensic Authorship Attribution.” Proceedings of the Classification Society of North America/Interface Foundation Annual Meeting. Interface Symposium and its Proceedings: Computing Science and Statistics.  St. Louis: Washington University.


2005. “Who’s At the Keyboard? Recent Results in Authorship Attribution.” International Journal of Digital Evidence. Volume 4:1.  Spring 2005. Available at http://www.ijde.org


2002.“Language as Clue: Authorship Identification in an Electronic Society.” Law Enforcement Executive Institute Forum. Volume 2, Number 3. September 2002. Published by University of Western Illinois.


2001.“Empirical Evaluation of Language-Based Author Identification Techniques.”

Forensic Linguistics: International Journal of Speech, Language and Law 

Volume 8:1. pp. 1-64. June 2001. Published by University of Birmingham, England. Chaski_2001EmpiricalEvaluations.pdf


  1. 1997."Who Wrote It? Steps Toward a Science of Authorship Identification." National Institute of Justice Journal.  September 1997. Also available through National Criminal Justice Reference Service: http://www.ncjrs.org NCJ 184604. Chaski1997WhoWroteItNIJJournal.pdf


Technical Grant Reports:


1998. A Daubert-Inspired Assessment of Current Techniques for Language-Based Author Identification.  ILE Technical Report1098.          Also available through National Criminal Justice Reference Service: http://www.ncjrs.org NCJ 172234.


 
News

September 2010

Dr Chaski lectured as a keynote speaker at the National Document Examination Seminar in Edgewood, Maryland on validation testing in handwriting identification and ALIAS tools for handwriting examiners.


Dr Chaski attended the Annual Conference of the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute in Orlando, FL.

June 2010

ALIAS training was provided in conjunction with TechnoSecurity 2010 held in Myrtle Beach, SC. Attendees represented licensed private investigation, digital security, linguistics, and law. Training was sponsored by CyberSecurity Research Institute of Atlantic Armstrong State University.


May 2010

Dr Chaski was a keynote speaker at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Document Examiners in Portland, Oregon.


March 2010

ALIAS training was provided at Troutman and Sanders in Washington DC. Attendee represented several government agencies and pubic defense.


September 2009

Dr Chaski served on the Technical Program Committee, peer-reviewing abstracts for PAN 09. The workshop brings together experts and researchers around the topics of plagiarism detection, authorship identification, and the detection of social software misuse. The development of new solutions for these problems can benefit from the combination of existing technologies, and in this sense the workshop provides a platform that spans different views and approaches

 

June 2009

Dr. Chaski spoke on "The Language of Trauma Narratives" at the International Academy of Law and Mental Health in New York, NY.

 

March 2009

Dr. Chaski was invited to speak on a panel for graduate students concerning non-academic careers in linguistics at the American Association of Applied Linguists meeting in Denver CO. She presented "Opportunities and Challenges in Forensic Linguistics and Literacy."

 

"Letter Perfect" was the first episode to feature forensic linguistics on the popular TV show, Forensic Files. This episode shows how ALIAS was used to demonstrate that Joseph Mannino had authored phony suicide notes to cover up the murder of his roommate, Michael Hunter. Mr Mannino admitted on the witness that he authored the notes. The show has been regularly re-run since its premiere in 2003.

Dr Chaski was invited to speak about forensic linguistics for the NCSTL, the largest data warehouse on forensics in the US. ChaskiOnForLIngForAAFSR09_0010.mp3

Dr Chaski was interviewed to speak about "the linguistic fingerprint" and what makes author identification possible --maybe not what you might think! CBC Radio One.mp3

Roberta Isleib's series includes a female forensic linguist as sidekick to her main character, a forensic psychologist. A great read!

Dr Katherine Ramsland is one of the most prolific writers about forensic sciences in the USA. Her book on the CSI
effect --and how it is changing the way we think of evidence--includes a discussion of Chaski's work in forensic linguistics.