[Corpora-List] Forensic linguistics: advice sought. A summary

[TadPiotr]

I would like to thank very much all colleagues who kindly sent in their 
suggestions for their effort. The person on whose behalf I was asking 
the question is Monika Zaśko-Zielińska, and her email is monik at 
uni.wroc.pl. Am sending this summary to her as well. Below you will find 
a summary of the replies, with the name of the contributor preceding the 
summary, in the chronological order.
Best wishes,
Tadeusz

Martin Wynne
- Krzysztof Kredens did some work in this area, on Polish (see futher 
the reply from Ramesh).

Yves Bestgen
- Pennebaker's work
- work by Graesser's team (University of Memphis) with the Coh-Metrix system

Yorick Wilks
- a recent comic novel "Deaf Sentence" by David Lodge has the topic as 
the subject

Ramesh Krishnamurthy
- a new Centre for Forensic Linguistics at Aston: 
http://www.forensiclinguistics.net/, the main staff: Prof Malcolm 
Coulthard, Dr Tim Grant and Dr Krzysztof Kredens

Tim Grant (through Ramesh)
- "Susan Giles, a psychologist, in the last year completed a PhD on 
(English) suicide notes from the University of Liverpool
- Jess Shapiro (Birmingham University) has been looking at suicide notes 
for a number of years"

Mark Stevenson
- John Pestian's work on classification of suicide notes (in English). 
The most recent paper (perhaps):
Pestian JP, Matykiewicz P. Classification of suicide notes using natural 
language processing. Proceedings of ACL BioNLP; 2008 June: Columbus. p. 
96-7

Oliver Mason
- information on Aston University

Klaus Guenther
- Erhardt, Sabine (Wiesbaden) and Schall, Sabine (Wiesbaden). Forensic 
Linguistics and Corpus Evaluation in the German BKA. 
http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/langlaw/programme.php
- Israeli researchers came up with a multi-vector method that allows 
them to determine the original nationality of L2 writers of English with 
a relatively high accuracy. M. Koppel, J. Schler and K. Zigdon (2005), 
Determining an Author's Native Language by Mining a Text for Errors, 
Proceedings of KDD, Chicago IL.
- Authorship analysis, works by Tiersma and Solon for more information. 
Hannes Kniffka also has an extensive body of work on forensic 
linguistics, mostly in German. 
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/k/Koppel:Moshe.html

Luciana Carvalho
- sent the reply to FORENSIC-LINGUISTICS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

John Pestian
- "We have a database of over 1,000 suicide notes in English. We've also 
developed an extensive web-based user interface for scanning, 
annotating, entering, reviewing and validating the notes."

Jamie Pennebaker, through Jason Baldridge
- Thomas Joiner at Florida State University (or possibly University of 
Florida)

Kevin B. Cohen
- The classic book is "Clues to Suicide," by Edwin Shneidman and Norman 
Farberow.
- The next book-length study is by Antoon Leenaars : "Suicide Notes: 
Predictive Clues and Patterns."

Sue Blackwell
- Jess Shapiro has collected a corpus of suicide notes in English and is 
writing up her Ph.D. thesis
at Birmingham on this very topic
- suggested joining the Forensic-Linguistics discussion list.


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