Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart, Ramos, Daniel, Ypma, Rolf JF, Basu, Nabanita, Bie, Kim de, Enzinger, Ewald, Geradts, Zeno, Meuwly, Didier, Vloed, David van der, Vergeer, Peter and Weber, Philip (2022). A strawman with machine learning for a brain: A response to Biedermann (2022) the strange persistence of (source) “identification” claims in forensic literature. Forensic Science International: Synergy, 4 ,
Abstract
We agree wholeheartedly with Biedermann (2022) FSI Synergy article 100222 in its criticism of research publications that treat forensic inference in source attribution as an “identification” or “individualization” task. We disagree, however, with its criticism of the use of machine learning for forensic inference. The argument it makes is a strawman argument. There is a growing body of literature on the calculation of well-calibrated likelihood ratios using machine-learning methods and relevant data, and on the validation under casework conditions of such machine-learning-based systems.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2022.100230 |
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Divisions: | College of Engineering & Physical Sciences College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics ?? 50811700Jl ?? Aston University (General) |
Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license 4.0 Funding Information: The writing of this response was supported by Research England's Expanding Excellence in England Fund as part of funding for the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics 2019–2023. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Forensic inference,Machine learning,Pathology and Forensic Medicine,Law |
Publication ISSN: | 2589-871X |
Last Modified: | 14 Oct 2024 12:09 |
Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2022 11:56 |
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PURE Output Type: | Letter |
Published Date: | 2022-05-19 |
Published Online Date: | 2022-05-06 |
Accepted Date: | 2022-04-25 |
Authors: |
Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart
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Ramos, Daniel Ypma, Rolf JF Basu, Nabanita Bie, Kim de Enzinger, Ewald Geradts, Zeno Meuwly, Didier Vloed, David van der Vergeer, Peter Weber, Philip ( 0000-0002-3121-9625) |