Dana Roemling
Thesis Title: Validity of German regional dialect markers for authorship profiling
My corpus-based study will make use of computational approaches to dialect classification in order to show that social media writing can be used as the basis for regionally profiling authors in a forensic context. Put differently, I am currently researching how regional linguistic variation, such as dialects, can be used to help law enforcement find the authors of online communication.
Biography
Before joining the University of Birmingham for the MA Social Research and their PhD in Applied Linguistics, Dana completed a BA in Finnish/Scandinavian & English Studies at the University of Cologne and an MA in Linguistics at the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf. Dana's research interests are in forensic linguistics and language and law. Within forensic linguistics she likes to work on authorship, both analysis and profiling, but is also interested in other areas. Within language and law Dana is interested in statutory interpretation and power / identity in the legal discourse. They are also interested in sociolinguistics and lavender linguistics. Dana has also worked outside of academia, in IT, for a couple of years.
Memberships
International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics, International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, Internationale Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen, British Association for Applied Linguistics
Applied Linguistics
University of Birmingham
2020 Cohort, 1+3
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Supervisory Team
Jack Grieve
Bodo Winter