Forensic Linguistics Software

FLI Software

Corpus sampler of mobile phone texts

Download our corpus sampler of mobile phone texts, dubbed LOL. Free of charge. This sampler contains 1000 mobile phone texts. It is very informative about texting behaviour and should be of interest to anyone working on, or just interested in, the language of mobile phone texts.

Download: Free. There is no charge.

CopText

CopText, also known as Stylist-E, is software for comparing the styles of two sets of mobile phone texts. It compares the use of non-standard forms and punctuation. It is available only to forensic linguists and police officers. Send an email to forensic ling 2003 at yahoo dot co dot uk with a short description of the work you do in order to receive a download link to the software. We will need to be sure of who you are as this software is not for public release.