Segue link para reportagem do Yahoo News sobre o uso da Linguística para combater crimes no Twitter. Com o título "The Twitter detectives" who track down trolls and killers online", a matéria fala sobre o trabalho realizado pelo Centro de Linguística Forense da Universidade de Aston.
Trecho da matéria: "In 2010 Jamie Starbuck murdered his wife Debbie eight days after they married, and embarked on a round-the-world trip paid for by her savings. For two years he masqueraded as his dead wife, sending texts and emails to friends and family. When they became suspicious, police turned to a very specialised team of detectives - who find clues to identify criminals in online chat, emails and 140-letter Twitter messages. Sherlock Holmes could tell from the briefest glance at a handwritten letter whether the author was a criminal or an aristocrat - but the Centre for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University in Birmingham can identify people without paper or ink. People’s use of capitals, their choice of words and sentence structure can be as distinctive as any fingerprint - and the technology could be used to track anyone from killers to Twitter trolls who abuse people anonymously".
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