[Corpora-List] Research work

[Patrick Juola]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:14 AM, fatima zuhra <fateeshah at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I want to know if someone shares a copy of his/her research work with
> another person for review or checking purpose and the other person sends
> that for publication (claiming the authorship) then how the researcher will
> prove that it is his/her own research and not that of the other one?
>

There are several ways in which this can be done, but they're all generally
tricky and time consuming.    There is a (sub)discipline called forensic
linguistics that could analyze the language used in the publication and
determine who's writing style it shows.   There is another discipline
called digital forensics that could examine the relevant computers and see
on which computer the document was written --- obviously if you have old
drafts on your computer and I don't have any on mine, then you were the
author.

Or more simply, you can simply complain to the relevant journal editor and
ask them to investigate.  Editors tend to take this kind of issue quite
seriously.

If you're interested in learning more about this from a theoretical
perspective, you can go to evllabs.com and check out the JGAAP computer
program (and associated monograph) that describes how this is done.  I'll
be happy to explain more.

If, on the other hand, this is not merely a theoretical issue, but an
actual problem --- I am associated with a consulting company called Juola
and Associates (we haven't yet set up our web site or I'd send you there)
and my business manager, Patrick Brennan (pbrennan at jcomputing.com), would
be happy to look into the problem for you.

Warmest regards,
Patrick (Juola)
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