TY - BOOK AU - Nini,Andrea TI - A theory of linguistic individuality for authorship analysis T2 - Cambridge elements. Elements in forensic linguistics, SN - 9781108974851 AV - P98 .N5 2023 U1 - 410.285 23 PY - 2023/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Authorship KW - Data processing KW - Natural language processing (Computer science) KW - Mathematical models N1 - Also issued in print: 2023; Includes bibliographical references; Specialized N2 - Authorship analysis is the process of determining who produced a questioned text by language analysis. Although there has been significant success in the performance of computational methods to solve this problem in recent years, these are often methods that are not amenable to interpretation. Authorship analysis is in all effects an area of computer science with very little linguistics or cognitive science. This Element introduces a Theory of Linguistic Individuality that, starting from basic notions of cognitive linguistics, establishes a formal framework for the mathematical modelling of language processing that is then applied to three computational experiments, including using the likelihood ratio framework. The results propose new avenues of research and a change of perspective in the way authorship analysis is currently carried out UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974851 ER -