Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Evidence: A Legal Application for AI

Artificial intelligence changes everything, and almost no jobs will be immune. The application of AI to the practice of law is well-known and well-understood. In this paper, we present some aspects of the related disciplines of forensic science and specifically the development and analysis of “pattern [and impression] evidence.” We show that pattern evidence has a great need for AI.We discuss several applications in detail but focus mostly on the application of AI-based text analysis technology to forensic linguistics.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ

Who Wrote This?: Modern Forensic Authorship Analysis as a Model for Valid Forensic Science

The forensic analysis of a text in order to determine its authorship has, for decades, been accomplished by forensic linguists. These experts are trained in the science of linguistics, and have often applied their specialized expertise in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and pragmatics. Although the range of applications for forensic linguistics is extremely wide, this Article will focus only on the authorship attribution application. Herein, we maintain that reliability is an essential component of pattern comparison forensic practices, that testing for validity and measuring of error rates are the Daubert factors that best guarantee reliability, and that the practices of authorship attribution can be an effective model of how to carry out this testing

Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Evidence: A Legal Application for AI

Artificial intelligence changes everything, and almost no jobs will be immune. The application of AI to the practice of law is well-known and well-understood. In this paper, we present some aspects of the related disciplines of forensic science and specifically the development and analysis of “pattern [and impression] evidence.” We show that pattern evidence has a great need for AI.We discuss several applications in detail but focus mostly on the application of AI-based text analysis technology to forensic linguistics.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ

Is That You, Mr. Lincoln?: Applying Authorship Attribution to the Early Political Writings of Abraham Lincoln

The words of the Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural steadied a nation consumed by civil war and have since encouraged countless millions around the globe in their struggles for democracy and equality; however, Abraham Lincoln did not always write to inspire. Both his contemporaries and subsequent historians have suggested that as a young Illinois legislator, Lincoln frequently wrote vicious, and oftentimes libelous, newspaper articles and published them anonymously or with a pseudonym. Thus far, however, no historian has conducted a systematic search of relevant newspapers or developed a way to identify which articles Lincoln authored. This project proposes a solution. By merging two areas of the humanities, history and linguistics, this project will apply a series of innovative authorship attribution tests to the question of which anonymous and pseudonymous newspaper articles Lincoln wrote early in his career