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I know that most of you have seen the gender guessers which are available on the web. I am working on validation testing of gender and age estimators and seeking business correspondence in letter and email form. I have the Enron dataset, my own dataset funded by USDOJ a few years back and case documents. If you know of other sources, I would love to hear from you!<br>
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The context of this project might also be interesting for some of you: one question is whether anonymous whistleblower complaints are authored more by women than by men. Since a recent discussion on this list had to do with women in power, it would be very interesting to discover if women whistleblowers write anonymously. I personally think whistleblowers are very powerful (yet oppressed) people.<br>
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On another note, my research organization is offering mini-grants in forensic linguistic research, and we are especially interested in gender, so I hope some of you will apply. I have copied here the announcement which was made on the Linguist-List. The grants can be made to scholar/researchers who already hold the PhD as well as students.<br>
Blessings and thanks,<br>
Carole Chaski<br>
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Date: 22-Jun-2009<br>
From: Carole E. Chaski < cchaski@linguisticEvidence.org ><br>
Subject: Mini-grants in Forensic Linguistics Available<br>
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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:55:41<br>
From: Carole E. Chaski [cchaski@linguisticEvidence.org]<br>
Subject: Mini-grants in Forensic Linguistics Available<br>
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E-mail this message to a friend:<br>
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=20-2261.html&submissionid=221467&topicid=6&msgnumber=1<br>
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The Institute for Linguistic Evidence, Inc., is pleased to announce a grant<br>
competition for research, data collection, and/or validation testing in<br>
forensic linguistic methodology. <br>
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ILE plans to award a maximum of five mini-grants (US$500-US$2500) in summer<br>
2009 for work to be completed in 2009. Validation testing and data<br>
collection are the highest priorities, with preference for testing of<br>
existing systems such as ALIAS. Grantees should have earned at least the MA<br>
in linguistics, computer science or statistics, with the PhD or ABD<br>
preferred. For an application packet, please contact, via email, Carole E.<br>
Chaski, PhD, Executive Director, at cchaski@LinguisticEvidence.org.<br>
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Incorporated in Delaware, ILE was founded in 1998 as a 501(c)3 tax exempt,<br>
research organization supported by grants and donations to develop reliable<br>
methods for providing linguistic evidence in civil, criminal and security<br>
investigations, and to provide validation testing for the determination of<br>
error rates, best practices and standards for linguistic evidence. ILE<br>
projects have been funded by the US Department of Justice, National<br>
Institute of Justice, private philanthropy and industry. ILE software<b r>
development has produced ALIAS, the Automated Linguistic Identification and<br>
Assessment System, components of which have been accepted as fully<br>
admissible evidence in Federal and State courts. ALIAS implements<br>
computational linguistic methods for authorship identification, threat<br>
letter assessment, suicide note assessment, gender and age assessment,<br>
predatory text assessment, and intertextual relationship assessment.<br>
Currently ILE has research relationships with scholars and practitioners in<br>
the United States, Ireland, Switzerland, England, Canada and Nigeria. While<br>
ILE focuses on research and development, services are provided through<br>
ALIAS Technology LLC. ILE and ALIAS Technology LLC are located in<br>
Georgetown, Delaware, home of the influential Delaware Chancery Court.<br>
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For more information, please visit:<br>
http://www.LinguisticEvidence.org <br>
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Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics<br>
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From: Mary Talbot <mary.talbot@YMAIL.COM><br>
To: GALA-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<br>
Sent: Tue, Jul 7, 2009 10:38 am<br>
Subject: Re: [GALA-L] a question<br>
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<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,tim es,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Check out Judith Baxter's collection too, if you haven't already:</div>
<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;">Baxter,
Judith<span style=""> </span>(ed.) (2007) <i>Speaking
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<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Sally McConnell-Ginet <<a href="mailto:smg9@CORNELL.EDU">smg9@CORNELL.EDU</a>><br>
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<div>There's a chapter in Deborah Cameron's excellent popular book<i>
The Myth of Mars and Venus</i> that cites research on this and similar
ideas attributing women's relative lack of power to women's own
limitations--bottom line seems to be that there is no evidence that it
is women's inadequacies that keep men in power. Sally</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">Dear all,<br>
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I am a new Member of the list. I am currently writing my thesis about
whether the fear of public speaking is a reason why women are
under-represented in field of politics and other power-holding
positions. Does anyone know whether there is a literature that answers
this question?<br>
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Thank you very much in advance,<br>
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Kind Regards,<br>
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<div>Sally McConnell-Ginet<br>
Professor Emerita of Linguistics<br>
Morrill Hall, Cornell University<br>
Ithaca, NY 14853-4701, USA<br>
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