The individual styles of hundreds of people’s text messages will be analysed in a study that aims to help police with criminal investigations.
Researchers will scrutinise volunteers’ SMS messages to tease out patterns in the language and style of texts.
The University of Leicester team hopes the work will yield tools that allow identification of a text author.
Analysis of texts proved crucial in convicting Stuart Campbell of the murder of Danielle Jones in 2002.
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