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Have there been any instances where "Forensic Linguistics" actually predicted an outcome that wasn't previously suspected and it turned out to be true? All of
by georgemcbay 13y ago
Have there been any instances where "Forensic Linguistics" actually predicted an outcome that wasn't previously suspected and it turned out to be true? All of the examples I've heard of are it "confirming" things already suspected by other means.
Either way it is still an interesting tool and a cool use of technology, but I'd be a lot more impressed if the software were fed the text to a large number of random books and it detected an instance (with very high likelihood) of some famous author writing under a pen name, and then had that confirmed.