Identifying people by the language they use to create SMS messages

Link: BBC NEWS | Technology | Texting study to catch criminals.
Alex whacked this one over…

The new study aims to build on this kind of analysis to develop a forensic toolkit for investigations involving texts.

The six month study will analyse the linguistic conventions of texters

That’s going to be some study, eh? I can imagine it being relatively useful, however I wonder how reliable the toolkit could possibly be given there are only 160 characters and thus a limited amount of possible ways to express yourself. We shall no doubt find out…