El uso de recursos tecnológicos en lingüística forense

Abstract

This chapter shows some of the available computer tools that can help quicken the work of forensic linguists in the analysis of written samples for forensic purposes such as sociolinguistic profiling, authorship attribution, text disambiguation or plagiarism detection. It also reflects on the role of the linguistics expert and the ethical dimension of this profession. In conclusion, it is proposed that the knowledge and experience of the linguistics expert are still key and indispensable to use the latest technological tools efficiently and obtain rigorous results grounded on validated scientific theory.