25.3475, Calls: Forensic Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 25.3475, Calls: Forensic Linguistics/USA

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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:45:25
From: Carole Chaski [cchaski at LInguisticEvidence.org]
Subject: Association for Linguistic Evidence 2015

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Full Title: Association for Linguistic Evidence 2015 
Short Title: TALE 2015 

Date: 08-Jan-2015 - 11-Jan-2015
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA 
Contact Person: Carole Chaski
Meeting Email: TALE at LinguisticEvidence.org
Web Site: http://www.LinguisticEvidence.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2014 

Meeting Description:

A sister society of the Linguistic Society of America, The Association for Linguistic Evidence (TALE) holds its winter meeting with LSA. TALE supports empirical research using standard methods in linguistics, computer science and statistics for the development and testing of forensic linguistic methods.

The TALE Meeting includes a joint symposium with LSA, sessions for 20-minute papers, and a poster session.

The 2015 Symposium ''Expertise and Methodology in Forensic Linguistics'' includes talks by:

Steven T Wax Esq, Federal Public Defender, Oregon Innocence Project
Carole E Chaski, Institute for Linguistic Evidence
Keith Walters, Portland State University
Seung-Man Kang, Chungbuk National University, South Korea
Ángela Almela Sánchez-Lafuente, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Spain 
Abdesalam Soudi, University of Pittsburgh
John Baugh, Washington University 

TALE and LSA sponsor a joint symposium. 

Expertise and Methodology in Forensic Linguistics

Steven Wax, Esq. will present the legal perspective on expertise: various roles of experts (consulting, testifying) and the Frye and Daubert standards for admissible testimony. This talk will provide the audience with a good idea of what an expert is expected to do, with integrity, in the forensic setting. The major rulings that have admitted or not admitted linguistic evidence are reviewed.

Carole E. Chaski will present three approaches to forensic linguistics as linguistics and applied linguistics, focusing on how methods in linguistics get translated into a forensic application. These three approaches are (i) immediate and direct application of a standard linguistics method; (ii) building a method specifically for a forensic issue using standard methods in linguistics; and (iii) defending linguistics in forensic linguistics when the linguistic analysis is either applied incorrectly or not actually a method based in linguistics. The next three talks will illustrate each of these approaches to expertise in forensic linguistics.

Keith Walters will present his work on cases involving English-Only workplace rules. Walters will show how current research in linguistics has an immediate and direct application to the analysis of language in these cases. Walters will illustrate the role of both the consulting and testifying experts.

Carole E. Chaski, Seung-Man Kang, Angela Almela, and Abdesalam Soudi will present their work building a method specifically for a forensic issue using standard methods in linguistics. Chaski et al report on building a method for forensic authorship identification using standard syntactic analysis and corpus and computational linguistics, cross-linguistically. This work extends ALIAS, a system of software tools for forensic linguistic analysis based on methods in corpus and computational linguistics, syntax and semantics, and in particular the SynAID, a module for authorship identification (Chaski 1997, 2001, 2005, 2007). Expert testimony using SynAID has been admitted in Federal and State trials under both the Frye and Daubert standards, ALIAS SynAID has been validated in English, with an accuracy rate of 95%, and now we are working to develop these tools in other languages, such as Korean, Spanish and Arabic. 

John Baugh will present his work as an expert defending linguistics in forensic linguistics when the linguistic analysis is either applied incorrectly or not actually a method based in linguistics. Because non-linguists have proffered forensic linguistics and sometimes linguists have relied on non-linguistics-based models of language, the expert linguist must also be ready to defend linguistics and clarify what linguistics is in the forensic setting. Baugh will focus on linguistic profiling as linguistic evidence in various types of civil and criminal cases.

Call for Papers:

The Association for Linguistic Evidence (TALE) invites abstracts for the 2015 winter meeting held in conjunction with LSA. Abstracts are invited on all branches of linguistics that can apply to forensic questions including but not limited to:

- Author identification
- Speaker identification
- Language identification
- Suicide note assessment
- Threat assessment
- Measuring linguistic similarity
- Assessing language proficiency
- Court translation
- Court interpretation
- Court and deposition transcription
- Linguistic profiling (age, gender, dialect, education)

We are especially interested in validated methods for linguistic similarity and linguistic profiling for this years' meeting.

Authors should send a 300-1000 word abstract as an email attachment (pdf or MS Word) to TALE at LinguisticEvidence with subject line TALE 2015 Abstract. The abstract should be sent in two versions, one with contact information (author(s), affiliation(s), and email address(es)) and one without for blind review.

Empirical rigor, careful data management and generally-accepted linguistic methodologies are expected in abstracts that are accepted for TALE. Accepted abstracts may lead to publication in LESLI: Linguistic Evidence in Security, Law and Intelligence, an open-access journal published for the Institute for Linguistic Evidence by the University of Pittsburgh (http:lesli.org).

Notification: Authors will be notified by October 6, 2014.

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