Publications

Zeng, B. & Nini, A. Authorship impersonation via LLM prompting does not evade Authorship Verification methods.
[Pre-print]

Cameron, M., Nini, A., Bannard, C. Linguistic individuality in lexicogrammatical alternations.
[Pre-print]

Gan, Q., Dunn, J., Nini, A., Adams B. (forthcoming). A multi-dialectal, longitudinal corpus of human-AI hybrid language production. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Nini, A., Halvani, O., Graner, L., Titze, S., Gherardi, V., Ishihara, S. (forthcoming). Grammar as a behavioral biometric: Using cognitively motivated grammar models for authorship verification. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
[Pre-print]

Nini, A. (2026). idiolect: An R package for forensic authorship analysis. Journal of Open Source Software, 11(119), 7575.
[Open access]

Nini, A., Wood, C., Bowles, H. (2025). The Dickens signal: Investigating the authorship of “The Two Brothers”, a ghost story transcribed from shorthand. Textus, English Studies in Italy, 3, 25-52.
[Published version] [Accepted version]

Ishihara, S., Kulkarni, S., Carne, M, Ehrhardt, S., Nini, A. (2024). Validation in Forensic Text Comparison: Issues and opportunities. Languages, 9(2), 47.
 [Open access]

Nini, A. (2023). A Theory of Linguistic Individuality for Authorship Analysis. Elements in Forensic Linguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
[Open access] [Twitter thread] [Data and code]

Li, H., Dunn, J., Nini, A. (2023). Register variation remains stable across 60 languages. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 19(3), 397-426.
[Published version] [Accepted version]

Donlan, L. & Nini, A. (2022). Forensic authorship analysis of the Ayia Napa rape statement. In Picornell, I., Perkins, R., and Coulthard, M. (eds), Methodologies and Challenges in Forensic Linguistics Casework, 29-43, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
[Accepted version]

Dunn, J. & Nini, A. (2021). Production vs perception: The role of individuality in usage-based grammar induction. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, 149-159, Online: Association for Computational Linguistics.
[Open access]

Nini, A., Bailey, G., Guo, D., Grieve, J. (2020). The graphical representation of phonological dialect features of the North of England on social media. In Honeybone, P. & Maguire, W. (eds), Dialect Writing and the North of England, 266-296, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
[Accepted version]

Fonteyn, L. & Nini, A. (2020). Individuality in syntactic variation: An investigation of the 17th-century gerund alternation. Cognitive Linguistics, 31(2), 279-308.
[Open access]

Nini, A. (2019). Corpus analysis in forensic linguistics. In Chapelle, C. A. (ed), The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 313-320, Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.
[Accepted version]

Grieve, J., Chiang, E., Clarke, I., Gideon, H., Heini, A., Nini, A., Waibel, E. (2019). Attributing the Bixby letter using n-gram tracing. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 34(3), 493-512.
[Published version] [Accepted version]

Grieve, J., Montgomery, C., Nini, A., Murakami, A., Guo, D. (2019). Mapping lexical dialect variation in British English using Twitter. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2, 11.
[Open access]

Nini, A. (2019). Developing forensic authorship profiling. Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito, 5(2), 38-58.
[Open access]

Nini, A. (2019). The Multi-Dimensional Analysis Tagger. In Berber Sardinha, T. & Veirano Pinto M. (eds), Multi-Dimensional Analysis: Research Methods and Current Issues, 67-94, London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
[Accepted version]

Grieve, J., Nini, A., Guo, D. (2018). Mapping lexical innovation on American social media. Journal of English Linguistics, 46(4), 293-319.
[Open access] [Supplemental Material]

Nini, A. (2018). An authorship analysis of the Jack the Ripper letters. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 33(3), 621-636.
[Open access] [Download the Jack the Ripper corpus]

Nini, A. (2017). Register variation in malicious forensic texts. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 24(1), 99-126.
[Published version] [Accepted version] [Download the Malicious Forensic Text corpus]

Nini, A., Corradini, C., Guo, D., Grieve, J. (2017). The application of growth curve modeling for the analysis of diachronic corpora. Language Dynamics and Change, 7(1), 102-125.
[Published version] [Accepted version]

Grieve, J., Nini, A., Guo, D. (2017). Analyzing lexical emergence in Modern American English online. English Language and Linguistics, 21(1), 99-127.
[Published version] [Accepted version]

Nini, A. (2015). Authorship Profiling in a Forensic Context. PhD dissertation. Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
[Read] [Abstract]

Nini, A. (2013). Codal variation theory as a forensic tool. In Bridging the Gap(s) between Language and the Law: Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists, 31-41, Porto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto.
[Open access]

Nini, A. & Grant, T. (2013). Bridging the gap between stylistic and cognitive approaches to authorship analysis using Systemic Functional Linguistics and multidimensional analysis. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 20(2), 173-202.
[Published version] [Accepted version]