Open AccessA Corpus-Based Analysis of the Language Used by Defendants of Homicide in Court
Author(s) -
Katerina T. Frantzi,
Anastasia K. Katranidou
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
world journal of social science research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2375-9747
pISSN - 2332-5534
DOI - 10.22158/wjssr.v4n2p164
Subject(s) - linguistics , homicide , sentence , word (group theory) , speech recognition , natural language processing , corpus linguistics , psychology , computer science , poison control , philosophy , medicine , environmental health , suicide prevention
In this study we present the updated version of the Greek Corpus of Defendants’ Testimonies, GCDT and a series of new evaluations that have been carried out on the defendants’ speech. Using criteria, such as lexical richness, lexical density, part-of-speech frequencies, word and sentence length, we look for linguistic features which could characterize the stylometric profile of the defendants. We also present GCWT, a reference corpus that has been constructed similar to GCWT stylistic features. GCWT contains witnesses’ testimonies collected in the court.