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Proposed changes to Carole Chaski page: Mihika Gupta

• A start-level article missing a lot of information. Examples: Chaski is the CEO, president, and founder of a forensic linguistic technology company, and is the current director of the Institute for Linguistic Evidence. She now teaches at Columbian College at George Washington University.
  • Changes: Outside internet and database research to fill out Chaski's career and impact on the field of linguistics, as well as other information such as early life.
  • Important to add are sections.subsections in "Career" dedicated to the most pivotal research she has conducted, as well as influence/impact on the field, as well as reception/criticism.
  • Make sure that publications are correct and the most relevant and up-to-date.
• Overall, there isn't really a flow to the Career section of the article, which seems more like a series of facts about Chaski than a chronological development of her career, which is the standard for other pages similar to this one.
  • Changes: re-order the information to be chronological and fill in the gaps. Make subsections if necessesary (for example: teaching, writing, other professional work, etc.)
• Sources are cited and linked properly, though there are many large quotes in the article. Make sure that intra-Wikipedia links are working.
  • Changes: Re-word some sections to be paraphrased and summarized, rather than several sentences of quotes. Add relevant links to other Wikipedia articles.

Proposed changes to Carole Chaski page: Helen Rubio

• We should increase the "Career" and "Selected publications" sections' informational value by giving more context and clarity to Carole Chaski's contributions.
  • We could briefly describe the significance of each publication and/or dvelopment.
  • We could also link terms like "markedness" and "syntax" to their corresponding Wiki pages so that Chaski's influence is clear and the fundamental information is accessible.
• We should find sources that present a more complex view of Chaski's work.
  • We could seek out more scientific references.
  • We should reconsider how much the article relies on certain sources. Many of the current references are sourced from editorial pieces. Even though these journalists are respected writers - and in some cases linguists - for companies that have reliable fact-checking practices, they may not necessarily be qualified to interpret her work.
    • Example: Editor-in-Chief of Forensic Magazine, Michelle Taylor, does not have anything that hints at a linguistic background listed in her staff page on the magazine's website. She wrote one of the references.

Helen.r (talk) 02:59, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Helen's intended contribution to the Carole Chaski page, proposed on 3/4/2018 (awaiting review by WikiEd content editor): '

Current lead section for the article; pasted from the Carole Chaski page:
Carole Elisabeth Chaski (born 1955) is a forensic linguist, considered one of the leading experts in the field, especially in the field of author identification research..

• Contribution 1: Adding information from scientific sources to the lead section (I intend to add the following statements - separated by bullet points - after the last sentence in the leading section of the Carole Chaski page seen above.)
  • In this field, Chaski’s work has helped explain the connection between Noam Chomsky’s idea of a generative grammar, individuation and stylometry .
    

• Contribution 2: Providing context and examples for her contributions (These statements will follow directly after the last statement in my first contribution above.)
  • One of her contributions was her research on the reliability of the different variables that forensic linguists used as discriminants amongst unknown authors.
  • Her findings led her to conclude that many of the frequently used variables – such as the amount of spelling errors or prescriptive grammar errors – were not valid ways of determining authors or discriminating between them. Chaski's complaint centered on the basis that many of these variables were reflective of dialects and not idiolects.
    

• Contribution 3: Adding complexity to the article by providing critical views (These statements will follow the last statement in my second contribution above.)
  • Her work in this area has been criticized by Tim Grant and Kevin Baker who have addressed issues with the reliability and validity of her method. . The two point out issues with Chaski's selection of authors, namely, the lack of sociolinguistic diversity amongst the participants. (added March 22, 2018)
    

• Contribution 4: The addition of hyperlinks to stylometry and generative grammar
  

• Contribution 5: elaborating on the "Selected Publications" I could find (proposed on March 22, 2018)

Draft

Carole Elisabeth Chaski (born 1955) is a forensic linguist, considered one of the leading experts in the field, especially in the field of author identification research. In this field, Chaski’s work has helped explain the connection between Noam Chomsky’s idea of a generative grammar, individuation and stylometry.

One of her contributions was her research on the reliability of the different variables that forensic linguists used as discriminants amongst unknown authors. Her findings led her to conclude that many of the frequently used variables – such as the amount of spelling errors or prescriptive grammar errors – were not valid ways of determining authors or discriminating between them. Chaski's complaint centered on the basis that many of these variables were reflective of dialects and not idiolects. Her work in this area has been criticized by Tim Grant and Kevin Baker who have addressed issues with the reliability and validity of her method. The two point out issues with Chaski's selection of authors, namely, the lack of sociolinguistic diversity amongst the participants.

Selected publications

• Who Wrote It? Steps Toward a Science of Author Identification. National Institute of Justice Journal, vol. 233, pp. 15–22 (1997).
• "Junk Science, Pre-Science and Developing Science" National Conference on Science and the Law Proceedings, 97-147 (1999).
• "Empirical Evaluations of Language-Based Author Identification Techniques" International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, 8:1 (2001).
  • A study on the reliability and validity of certain techniques used in forensic stylistics. Chaski was inspired to conduct the study because of the Court-decision made in United States v. Van Wyk.
• "Who’s At The Keyboard? Recent Results in Authorship Attribution," International Journal of Digital Evidence 4:1 (Spring 2005), 1-13 (2005).
• "The Keyboard Dilemma and Authorship Attribution," International Federation for Information Processing Volume 242, 133-146 (2007).
  • A study prescribing a method for authorship attribution in the case of documents that are sourced from computers which have multiple users.
    

QUESTIONS FOR THE WIKIED CONTENT EDITOR:
Q #1: I would like some help formatting my citation so that the source for references 4 and 5 does not appear twice in the reference list.
Q #2: I don't feel that I have a good sense of what belongs in which section. Do you think the information I included in my proposal to the lead section is appropriate? I've read over the Lead Section help article, but I'm still not convinced I'm on the right track.

Thank you for your help in advance!
Helen.r (talk) 20:42, 25 March 2018 (UTC)


Mihika'a intended contributions to Carole Chaski page for 3/4/2018:

• Career section: reordering and filling in information.
  • Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina (1987 - 1990)
  • Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University (1990 - 1994)
  • Visiting Research Fellow, USDOJ National Institute of Justice (1995 - 1998)
  • Executive Director, Institute for Linguistic Evidence (1998 - present)
  • CEO, ALIAS Technology, LLC (2007 - present)
  • Adjunct professor, Columbian College at George Washington University (present)
• More information on her contributions to computational linguistics through software, how the software works, and its impact.
• List of publications to be looked through. Most relevant and impactful will be added to "selected publications" with an abstract or summary.

Helen's new draft for Carole Chaski page (4/5/2018)


Added primary sources for several citations:

Carole Elisabeth Chaski (born 1955) is a forensic linguist, considered one of the leading experts in the field, especially in the field of author identification research.. Through her work Chaski has helped explain the connection between Noam Chomsky’s idea of a generative grammar, individuation and stylometry.. One of her contributions was her research on the reliability of the different variables that forensic linguists used as discriminants amongst unknown authors. Her findings led her to conclude that many of the frequently used variables – such as the amount of spelling errors or prescriptive grammar errors – were not valid ways of determining authors or discriminating between them. Chaski's complaint centered on the basis that many of these variables were reflective of dialects and not idiolects.

Will be adding the following criticisms of Chaski's work to a new section; added primary source for Baker & Grant: Chaski's work in determining which markers are reliable for authorship analysis has been criticized by Tim Grant and Kevin Baker. The two have addressed issues with the reliability and validity of her method for evaluating each marker. They also draw attention to Chaski's selection of authors, namely because of the lack of sociolinguistic diversity amongst the participants.

Helen.r (talk) 02:52, 6 April 2018 (UTC)