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Jack the Ripper Letters: Did the Killer Write Them? Dr Andrea Nini’s Forensic Linguistic Analysis
Who wrote the Jack the Ripper letters? Could forensic linguistics help reveal whether some of the most famous letters were written by the same person?Daniel Curtis is joined by Dr Andrea Nini, forensic linguist at the University of Manchester, to discuss his peer-reviewed research into the Jack the Ripper correspondence. Nini’s paper, “An authorship analysis of the Jack the Ripper letters,” was published in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (Oxford Academic), Volume 33, Issue 3, pages 621–636.Using computational authorship analysis, linguistic patterns and word combinations, Nini compared…
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