ALIAS TECHNOLOGY - Key Persons

Carole E. Chaski

Job Titles:
  • CEO and President of ALIAS Technology LLC
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Science
Carole E. Chaski, PhD is the CEO and President of ALIAS Technology LLC, which she founded in 2007. She also serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Linguistic Evidence, the first non-profit research organization devoted to research and development in linguistic evidence, which she founded in 1998. Chaski began work in forensic linguistics in 1992 and is credited with pioneering the field of forensic computational linguistics. She has developed methods and software for authorship identification and classification of specific discourse types, such as threat letters, suicide notes, child sex-abuse allegations, predatory chats, and deceptive witness statements. Chaski is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Science, Engineering Sciences Section, a Lifetime member of the Linguistic Society of America, a member of the Societas Linguistisca Europaea, a Founding member of TALE: The Association for Linguistic Evidence, an Associate member of the American Bar Association, and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE and ASIS.

Melissa Wright

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Associate at ALIAS Technology LLC
Melissa Wright MA is the Administrative Associate at ALIAS Technology LLC, which she joined in 2017. Wright has a background in journalism, digital marketing, website development, and computational syntactic linguistics, all of which are put to good use in her work at ALIAS Technology. Wright earned her master's in linguistics from Northern Illinois University in 2017. While there, she completed a year-long master's thesis research project differentiating the character dialogue from the narration of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray using computational syntactic methodology. In 2018, her work was awarded the Outstanding Thesis Award in the category of Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, and she was the university's representative for the 2018 Midwestern Association of Graduate School regional thesis competition. Since graduating, Ms Wright has worked in the digital marketing realm, as a linguistic consultant for a company that performs discourse analysis of doctor-patient conversations, and for a company providing resources targeted toward linguistics majors. She and her psychotherapist husband are developing a communication research, analysis, and consulting platform for those who want to improve their communication styles within their relationships. At ALIAS Technology, Wright coordinates activity between ALIAS Technology LLC and its partners. At the Institute for Linguistic Evidence (ILE), Wright is the Managing Director and Assistant Director of Research. Through ILE, she manages the professional association TALE: The Association for Linguistic Evidence as the Membership Coordinator. Finally, Wright is the Managing Editor of LESLI: Linguistic Evidence in Security, Law and Intelligence. Wright also provides linguistic analysis in case consulting as a support linguist.