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Forensic Authorship Analysis and the World Wide Web

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Samuel Larner

    1. University of Central Lancashire, UK

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: The UNABOM Investigation

    • Samuel Larner
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Web as Corpus and Authorship Attribution

    • Samuel Larner
    Pages 12-34

  4. Attributing Documents to Unknown Authors Using Idiolectal Co-selection and the Web

    • Samuel Larner
    Pages 35-48

  5. Attributing Documents to Candidate Authors Using Idiolectal Co-selection and the Web

    • Samuel Larner
    Pages 49-57

  6. The Suitability of the Web for Producing Forensic Evidence

    • Samuel Larner
    Pages 58-69

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 70-76
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Implementing a novel method for identifying idiolectal co-selections, and taking the UNABOM investigation as a case study, this Pivot evaluates the effectiveness and reliability of using the web for forensic purposes.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Central Lancashire, UK

    Samuel Larner

About the author

Samuel Larner is a Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. His research interests are primarily in forensic linguistics, specifically authorship analysis and deception detection. Samuel is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate modules in linguistics, contributing in particular to an innovative and interdisciplinary MSc in Emotions, Credibility and Deception.

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