The visualisation of cognitive structures in forensic statements

Jing Wang, Yufang Ho, Zhijie Xu, Dan McIntyre, Jane Lugea

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Abstract

Forensic statements are often unstructured, intricate, and thus difficult to interpret and assess. This is due to the varied nature and format of how interviews with victims, witnesses, or suspects are conducted. It is even more difficult for police investigators, lawyers or other legal practitioners to grasp intuitively and accurately the key information pertaining within the varied statements. This research investigates the opportunities in the convergence of linguistic approaches to extracting and reconstructing the cognitive structure, i.e. "Text-Worlds", in a statement, and the computerised operational settings for enabling effective and hopefully more accurate interpretation of forensic discourse through visualisation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2016 20th International Conference Information Visualisation, IV 2016
EditorsEbad Banissi, Urska Cvek, Chun-Cheng Lin, Francis T. Marchese, Chi Man Pun, Theodor G. Wyeld, Mark W. McK. Bannatyne, John Counsell, Marjan Trutschl, Fatma Bouali, Remo Burkhard, John Counsell, Anna Ursyn, Gilles Venturini, Georges Grinstein, Feng Lin, Martin J. Eppler, Wei Dong Huang, Sebastian Kernbach, Muhammad Sarfraz, Jian J. Zhang
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages106-111
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781467389426
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Aug 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event20th International Conference Information Visualisation, IV 2016 - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: 19 Jul 201622 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation
Volume2016-August
ISSN (Print)1093-9547

Conference

Conference20th International Conference Information Visualisation, IV 2016
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period19/07/1622/07/16

Keywords

  • Forensic Stylistics
  • Information Visualisation
  • Text World Theory

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