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Dr Andrea Nini is a lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester. His areas of teaching and research are Forensic linguistics, Corpus linguistics, register variation and Sociolinguistics.

Forensic Authorship Analysis

Dr. Nini offers forensic linguistic consultancy for cases of authorship analysis and he also works on historical cases of disputed authorship(the application of linguistic methods to shed light on the authorship of a questioned text). Most of his research and teaching is dedicated to authorship analysis for forensic linguistics. He regularly applies his research to real-life case work for private clients and law enforcement units and he also works on the application of authorship analysis to historical problems of authorship. The topic of Dr. Nini's PhD thesis is authorship profiling, or the use of linguistics to infer characteristics of the anonymous author of a text from their style of writing.

Bibliography


 * Nini, A. (2019). Corpus analysis in forensic linguistics. In Chapelle, C. A. (ed), The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 313-320, Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell
 * Grieve, J., Chiang, E., Clarke, I., Gideon, H., Heini, A., Nini, A., Waibel, E. (2019). Attributing the Bixby letter using n-gram tracing. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 34(3), 493-512.
 * Grieve, J., Montgomery, C., Nini, A., Murakami, A., Guo, D. (2019). Mapping lexical dialect variation in British English using Twitter. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2, 11.
 * Nini, A. (2019). Developing forensic authorship profiling. Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito, 5(2), 38-58.
 * Nini, A. (2019). The Multi-Dimensional Analysis Tagger. In Berber Sardinha, T. & Veirano Pinto M. (eds), Multi-Dimensional Analysis: Research Methods and Current Issues, 67-94, London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
 * Grieve, J., Nini, A., Guo, D. (2018). Mapping lexical innovation on American social media. Journal of English Linguistics, 46(4), 293-319.
 * Nini, A. (2018). An authorship analysis of the Jack the Ripper letters. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 33(3), 621-636.
 * Nini, A. (2017). Register variation in malicious forensic texts. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 24(1), 99-126.
 * Nini, A., Corradini, C., Guo, D., Grieve, J. (2017). The application of growth curve modeling for the analysis of diachronic corpora. Language Dynamics and Change, 7(1), 102-125.
 * Grieve, J., Nini, A., Guo, D. (2017). Analyzing lexical emergence in Modern American English online. English Language and Linguistics, 21(1), 99-127.
 * Nini, A. (2015). Authorship Profiling in a Forensic Context. PhD dissertation. Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
 * Nini, A. (2013). Codal variation theory as a forensic tool. In Bridging the Gap(s) between Language and the Law: Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists. Porto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 31-41.
 * Nini, A. & Grant, T. (2013). Bridging the gap between stylistic and cognitive approaches to authorship analysis using Systemic Functional Linguistics and multidimensional analysis. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 20(2), 173-202.

Talks


 * Nini, A. ‘Authorship clustering for the dark web: Methodological and theoretical remarks’. Invited talk at the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University, Birmingham, UK. 06/03/2020.
 * Nini, A. ‘Introduction to Forensic Linguistics’. Guest lecture at the University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany. 10/12/2019.
 * Nini, A. ‘Who wrote the Jack the Ripper letters? A forensic linguistic analysis’. Work in progress seminars. Invited talk at the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. 02/10/2019.
 * Fonteyn, L. & Nini, A. ‘Individuality in syntactic variation: an investigation of the 17th-century gerund alternation’. Symposium on Representations, Usage and Social Embedding in Language Change. University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. 21/08/2019.
 * Nini, A. & Grieve, J. ‘Frequency-free authorship attribution: Testing the n-gram tracing method’. CL2019. Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. 24/07/2019.
 * Nini, A. ‘The Jack the Ripper case and the evidence for idiolectal lexical bundles’. ICAME 40. Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 03/06/2019.
 * Organised the 1st Roundtable on Practices and Standards in Forensic Authorship Analysis. University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. 15/05/2019.
 * Nini, A. ‘Who wrote the Jack the Ripper letters? A stylometric analysis’. Digital Humanities Congress 2018. The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. 06/09/2018.
 * Fonteyn, L. & Nini, A. ‘Investigating the ing-form network in the idiolects of 17th century authors’. ICCG10: Tenth International Conference on Construction Grammar, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. 17/07/2018.
 * Grieve, J., Carmody, E., Clarke, I., Gideon, H., Heini, A., Nini, A., Waibel, E. ‘Attributing the Bixby letter using n-gram tracing’. 9th International Corpus Linguistics Conference, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. 26/07/2017.
 * Nini, A. 2017. ‘Profiling the anonymous authors of malicious forensic texts’. 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. 12/07/2017.
 * Grieve, J., Montgomery, C., Nini, A., Guo, D. 2017. ‘Assessing the use of social media for mapping lexical variation in British English’. International Conference on Language Variation in Europe – ICLAVE 9, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain. 06/06/2017.
 * Nini, A. 2017. ‘Social media and the new frontiers of forensic authorship profiling’. Invited plenary talk at MFIL – Manchester Forum in Linguistics 2017. University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. 28/04/2017.
 * Nini, A. 2016. ‘The Multidimensional Analysis Tagger, or how I stopped worrying and created a tagger using regular expressions’. Invited talk at 2nd BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Event 2016. Coventry University, Coventry, UK. 10/12/2016.
 * Rocchi, J., Nini, A., Saad, D., Grieve, J. 2016. ‘Dynamics and equilibria in Twitter: Analyzing geographical lexical spread’. IT Open Research Forum Workshop, London School of Economics, London, UK. 19/05/2016.
 * Grieve, J., Nini, A., Guo, D., Kasakoff, A. 2015. ‘Using social media to map double modals in modern American English’. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 44, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 25/10/2015.
 * Grieve, J., Nini, A., Guo, D., Kasakoff, A. 2015. ‘Recent changes in word formation strategies in American social media’. Corpus Linguistics 2015, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. 22/07/2015.
 * Nini, A. 2015. ‘Register variation in malicious forensic texts’. The International Association of Forensic Linguists 12th Biennial Conference. Guandong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China. 07/07/2015.
 * Nini, A. 2015. A forensic linguistics analysis of the Sony hack texts. Invited talk at the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. 07/05/2015.
 * Grieve, J., Guo, D., Kasakoff, A. & Nini, A. 2014. ‘Big-data dialectology: Analyzing lexical spread in a multi-billion word corpus of American English’. AACL 2014. Flagstaff, Arizona, US. 28/09/2014.
 * Nini, A. 2014. The Multidimensional Analysis Tagger – A tool for genre and text type analysis. Invited talk at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. 12/06/2014.
 * Nini, A. 2014. ‘The Multidimensional Analysis Tagger – A tool for genre and text type analysis’. ICAME 35 – Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture. Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK. 01/05/2014.
 * Nini, A. 2013. ‘Authorship profiling as a diagnostic process’. The International Association of Forensic Linguists 11th Biennial Conference. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico. 26/06/2013.
 * Grieve, J. & Nini, A. 2013. ‘The authorship of the Declaration on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms’. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Boston, US, 03/01/2013.
 * Nini, A. 2012. ‘Codal variation analysis as a forensic tool’. 3rd European Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists. University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. 17/10/2012.
 * Nini, A. 2011. ‘Systemic functional linguistics: Implications for authorship analysis’. 38th International Systemic Functional Congress. University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. 25/07/2011.
 * Nini, A. 2011. ‘Style, systems and genre: A theoretical base for stylistic approaches to authorship analysis’. The International Association of Forensic Linguists 10th Biennial Conference. Aston University, Birmingham, UK. 13/07/2011.

Press and other publications

Victoria Derbyshire, BBC Two, 6 January Forensic linguist Dr Andrea Nini analysed the police statement of a British woman convicted over a false rape claim, where she withdrew the original allegation The Guardian, 3 January “Dr Andrea Nini, a forensic linguistics analyst who is listed as an expert by the UK’s National Crime Agency, said it was highly likely the statement was dictated to her by someone who does not speak English as a first language because of its use of irregular phrases, such as ‘I discovered them recording me doing sexual intercourse’ The Times, 3 January “Andrea Nini, a forensic linguistics specialist at Manchester University, told the Daily Mail that it was ‘highly unlikely’ that the defendant had composed the statement in her own words.” Daily Mail, 2 January “Dr Nini, of Manchester University, said it was ‘highly unlikely’ someone of the defendant’s background would have composed the statement in that way.” The New York Times, 30 December “Andrea Nini, a forensic linguist, testified during the proceedings that it was likely that a paragraph in the statement had been dictated.” Sky News, 31 October “The teenager is being helped by lawyer Michael Polak, director of the group Justice Abroad, who said an 18-page report by forensic linguist Dr Andrea Nini will back her case. Mr Polak said: “He’s done a mathematical analysis of the words in her statement and concluded it’s highly unlikely they would be the words of a native English speaker rather than someone who speaks English as a second language.” Oxford University Press Blog, 9 October “One of the most fascinating aspects of the Whitechapel murders is indeed how long they survived in the collective imagination and how distant their recollection is from anything we know to be true.“ School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Stories, 22 March “That’s another contribution of the Jack the Ripper study; testing and applying methods used to analyse short texts on this case. It’s an addition to that body of research.” Forensic Magazine, 7 February “Although it’s been more than a century since the murders and letters, the great thing about linguistics is it can’t be degraded—not in the way DNA or fingerprints can. Any ‘new’ evidence found in the case is corrupted because it’s been too long, but not linguistics.” The Times, 1 February BBC News, 1 February University of Manchester Press release, 29 January “I came across the Jack the Ripper letters a few years ago and I was surprised to know that there had not been any forensic linguistics analysis of them, so I thought that I could apply modern forensic linguistic techniques to uncover evidence about their author.” Forensic Magazine, September “This method is new, it’s something we tried and saw it worked very well for solving this particular problem.” Futuro Quotidiano, 29 August University of Manchester Press release, 20 July “Because of its shortness the Bixby letter presented many challenges, and we had to devise a completely new method to analyse it.” Sputnik, 08 February “The level of detail we have right now and the possibilities are unprecedented. Possessing all the data on the World Mapper on a country level, where we can go into minute detail, is everything a linguist dreams of.” University of Manchester Press release, 25 January “The app has become an entertaining and innovative way to engage the public with language diversity and to encourage people to reflect on linguistic and cultural differences.” La Lettura, Corriere della Sera, 22 January Memori Mese. February “Una nuova area sviluppatasi negli ultimi dieci anni è la linguistica forense, ovvero l’applicazione della conoscenza teorica della linguistica per scopi di natura forense, come ad esempio l’aiuto nella fase investigativa o probatoria in un caso giudiziario in cui vi siano prove di tipo linguistico. Un esempio di tali applicazioni è il caso di rapimento relativo alla lettera ad inizio pagina.”
 * (2019) Rally in support of woman in Cyprus ‘rape’ case
 * (2019) UK tour firm used by teenager in gang rape case ends trips to Ayia Napa
 * (2019) Cyprus rape case: Experts cast doubt on teenager’s confession
 * (2019) British teenager’s ‘confession’ over gang rape case WAS dictated by Cyprus police and uses ‘phrases an English person wouldn’t use’, language expert finds
 * (2019) Woman Who Accused 12 Men of Rape Is Guilty of ‘Public Mischief’ in Cyprus
 * (2019) UK teenager’s rape retraction ‘not written by native English speaker’
 * (2019) The journalist who created Jack the Ripper
 * (2018) The language of crime
 * (2018) Forensic Linguist Ties Two Jack the Ripper Letters to One Author
 * (2018) Jack the Ripper letters ‘faked to sell newspapers’
 * (2018) Jack the Ripper letters suggest newspaper hoax
 * (2018) Jack the Ripper letter mystery solved by Manchester researcher
 * (2017) Solving crime one word at a time. How forensic linguistics aids investigational and evidentiary cases
 * (2017) Non fu Lincoln a scrivere la celebre lettera a Lydia Bixby
 * (2017) Abe Lincoln mystery ‘almost certainly’ solved using technique similar to one that unmasked JK Rowling
 * (2017) From ‘God’ to ‘Bigly’: US Word Use on Twitter Mapped by UK Linguists
 * (2017) Lost for words – Twitter posts highlight differences in American vocabulary
 * (2017) La mappa degli accidenti: Ecco l’America
 * (2013) La linguistica forense: l’analisi del linguaggio per risolvere crimini

References

1. ^ Dr Andrea Nini Retrieved 08/03/2020.

2. ^ Andrea Nini - University of Manchester Retrieved 09/03/2020.