Methodology of Written Texts Author Identification in Forensic Examination

<p>This work is devoted to the method of identifying the author of the written text in <a href="http://slovari.yandex.ru/forensic%20examination/en-ru">forensic examination</a>.</p><p>The research described in this paper was carried out on the following material:</p><p>- Text used to populate the content of the website (texts subject: special machinery);</p><p>- Short journalistic texts (texts subject: ecology, oil);</p><p>- Corporate electronic correspondence (texts subject: expert activities);</p><p>- English texts (texts subject: automobile equipment).</p><p>The aim of the study is to describe the postulates of methodology of written text author analysis for <a href="http://slovari.yandex.ru/forensic%20examination/en-ru">forensic examination</a>, integrating interpretive and automated analysis methods.</p><p>The study used the following methods: interpretation, contextual analysis method, the method of semantic and stylistic analysis, methods of mathematical statistics and probability theory, etc.</p><p>The study identified the main postulates of methodology of written text author analysis for <a href="http://slovari.yandex.ru/forensic%20examination/en-ru">forensic examination</a>, integrating interpretive and automated analysis methods. They are:</p><p>- <a href="http://slovari.yandex.ru/examination/en-ru">examination</a> of all the possible attribution hypotheses;</p><p>- &nbsp;comparison of the two models of linguistic identity of the author, built with a hand of mathematical and&nbsp; linguistic methods of analysis;</p><p>- using for the building of linguistic identity of the author both methods of analysis: interpretive and automatic;</p><p>- formation of the conclusion of what attribution hypothesis was confirmed, on the basis of two types of analysis: interpretive and machine.</p>