Mersin University Linguistics Society (recorded talk) outlines the distinction among three forensic‑linguistic tasks: authorship attribution, which compares a disputed anonymous text against a set of known suspects; authorship verification, which tests a single suspect’s correspondence with the contested document; and authorship profiling, which extracts investigative leads when no suspect is available. The presentation argues that profiling—traditionally an investigative tool—can also generate admissible evidence for court proceedings, and it describes two current profiling approaches,
Bears on: authorship & stylometry · concepts & methods