FORENSIC LINGUISTS ASSESS FUTURE WHERE AI STRENGTHENS THEIR GROWING ACADEMIC AND OPERATIONAL FIELD
July 2nd, 2020
Forensic linguistics is a new field, aiding detection of lies and deception within verbal and written statements, but it is developing, and artificial intelligence/machine learning offers new opportunities for this technique to become increasingly useful.
That is the view of Professor Jack Grieve, Professorial Fellow in Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham, UK, who sees a “great opportunity” in such work, although significant research is needed before such studies can yield useful work.
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