Linguistic Evidence covers four broad areas:

  1. •Authorship Identification/ Speaker Identification

  2. •InterTextuality

  3. •Text Typing

  4. •Linguistic Profiling

ILE conducts research in each of these areas following standard experimental guidelines.

CORE RESEARCHERS Carole E. Chaski, PhD Helen Larsen, JD Kenneth Andrews, PhD (biography) Denise Huddle (biography)Kenneth_Andrews_PhD.htmlDenise_Huddle.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1

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SPOTLIGHT ON COLLABORATING RESEARCHERS ILE has research partners all over the world, scholars who share our passion for forensic linguistic research and truth in justice. We spotlight researchers here. Samina A. Khan, MS,  teaches English at the University of Management and Technology in Lahore, Pakistan, where she is working on her PhD with Dr. Anjum Saleemi, Dr Kabal Khan and Professor Nazir Malik. She has recently completed "Urdu-English Conversational Code Switching in a Pakistani Immigrant Family: A Case Study." Ms. Khan's interest in forensic linguistics focuses on the language of suicidal and non-suicidal poets, writing in Urdu, and whether such research can then be applied as a screening devise for depressed or suicidal students in Pakistan. Ms. Khan is able to use ILE research tools because our computing platform is Unicode compliant, and accepts the Arabic script in which Urdu is written as easily as the Roman script of English.
2010 UPDATES ILE researchers are initiating a new project on handwriting identification using software-assisted examiner-based measurements. ILE researchers are collaborating with forensic interviewers to develop protocols which secure accurate information from child witnesses.