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Sentiment Analysis of Case Suspects In Digital Forensics and Legal Analytics
Sundar Krishnan, Narasimha Shashidhar, Cihan Varol, ABM Rezbaul Islam
Pages - 1 - 15     |    Revised - 30-06-2022     |    Published - 01-08-2022
Volume - 13   Issue - 1    |    Publication Date - August 2022  Table of Contents
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KEYWORDS
Sentiment Analysis, Suspect Profiling, Legal Case Evidence, Electronic Stored Information, eDiscovery, Digital Forensic Analytics, Digital Forensics, Supervised Learning, Unsupervised learning, Neural Networks, Legal Analytics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing.
ABSTRACT
Sentiments of suspects in a legal case or digital forensic investigation can be of use when profiling their state of mind or feelings. Such information can help case investigators to plot their actions against case timelines, understand their instincts and build psychological profiles. In this research, the authors first assemble a fictional dataset of electronic evidence and store in a SQL Database. Next, they leverage different analytical techniques, automation, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to propose an approach to plot sentiments of case. This information is then presented via a custom software for case investigators who can use it to pick a suspect from the case and obtain their sentiments against various electronic evidence sources within the case load that they were associated with.
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Mr. Sundar Krishnan
Department of Computer Science, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX - United States of America
skrishnan@shsu.edu
Associate Professor Narasimha Shashidhar
Department of Computer Science, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX - United States of America
Professor Cihan Varol
Department of Computer Science, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX - United States of America
Dr. ABM Rezbaul Islam
Department of Computer Science, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX - United States of America


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