Empirical evaluations of language-based author identification techniques

Speech, Language and the Law

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-65

  Chaski, Carole E ^a  

^a Institute for Linguistic Evidence Inc

Author keywords

Author attribution; Document examination; Language based author identification; Questioned document

Indexed keywords

EID: 56249097939     PISSN: 13501771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/sll.2001.8.1.1     Document Type: Review

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