LINGUISTIC EXPERTISE SERVICE (Approved Technical Service)

Description:

Computer stations equipped with various types of specialized software for the complete analysis of samples:

Batvox. Voice biometrics software used in more than 35 countries to compare voices and verify a speaker’s identity regardless of text, channel or language.

Praat. Specific tool for the phonetic study of speech using spectrograms.

Adobe Audition. A set of tools for editing, mixing, burning, and restoring audio files.

Signature. Stylometric program designed by the University of Oxford focusing on the analysis of basic stylometric parameters and their visualization using graphs: word lengths, sentences and paragraphs, and letter and punctuation distributions.

Stylo. Stylometric classification and experimentation tool. Its script is written in the statistical programming language R, and uses its statistical classification methods.

UAM Corpustool. Tool that allows the annotation of textual corpus for any type of linguistic study.
Compilatio. It analyzes files and generates a report on the similarities detected on the Internet, in scientific journals and in its own database.

Services we offer:

Linguistic expertise includes the analysis of oral and written texts that may be part of the evidence in any legal proceedings.

• Linguistic analysis for interpretation and/or disambiguation.
• Plagiarism detection.
• Authorship attribution.
• Speaker identification.
• Transcription of recordings.
• Authentication of recordings.

Is a technician necessary for its use? Yes.

Is a technician available? Yes.

Coordinators: Mª Dolores Muñoz Núñez and Mario Crespo Miguel.

Location: Institute of Applied Linguistics (ILA) Linguistic Consultancy Office,Simón Bolívar Building, 2nd floor. Duque de Nájera Avenue 16, 11002 Cadiz.

Contact information:

forense.ila@uca.es
http://ila.uca.es/