The Company
In recent years CFL Software Development has specialised in
producing tools for the identification and prevention of
plagiarism, collusion and infringement of copyright.
The company
was founded in 1994 by David Woolls, who has been involved with
computational forensic linguistics since the mid-1980s.
The company emphasis is on working with experts in different
fields.
In addition to the products shown on the site, we undertake consultancy projects, which have included:
- work on writing development in children,
- reviewing readability measures
- and historical authorship investigations with academic specialists.
Consultancy Services
CFL undertake both historical and contemporary authorship
attribution casework and run workshops and advisory sessions in
plagiarism prevention and detection.
Publications
David Woolls is the author of the entry on Plagiarism in the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition (2006).
He has published papers in Forensic Linguistics: The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law
(1998 and 2003) and Studies in Bibliography (2003),
contributed a chapter in Multilingual Corpora in Teaching and
Research (2000) Reviewed here
and provided two modules of the MA in Translation
Studies at the University of Birmingham (2001).