Authorship · Stylometry · Linguistic EvidenceFile Z-03 · Thursday, July 9, 2026
FLING/ˈflɪŋ/n.
Forensic Linguistics
The language is the evidence.

Amuchi et al. (2012) examine forensic authorship analysis of online chat logs to detect cyber predators, outlining how stylometric feature extraction and both statistical and machine‑learning classification techniques can be employed to build authorial profiles for attribution. The paper situates its approach within the broader fields of stylometry and authorship attribution, emphasizing text categorisation and classification as tools for identifying illicit online behaviour.

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