The Company

CFL Software Limited came into existence on 15th July 2008, but the business began life, as CFL Software Development, in 1994. It was founded by David Woolls, the CEO of the new company, who has been involved with computational forensic linguistics since the mid-1980s. He has now been joined by Rachel Eaton, who has worked in the information and knowledge management industry for the past 17 years for a global publishing company in the legal sector. Rachel’s role there was looking after the needs of the top international law firms.
The predominant work until the last couple of years has been producing tools for the identification and prevention of plagiarism, collusion and infringement of copyright. The growth of the company has resulted from the interest in both the legal sector and the web community in the high precision identification of similarity required for evidential data. This has driven the development of a search engine which uses clauses, sentences or whole documents as search input and the design and implementation of real-time monitoring tools for web use.

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, advise on plagiarism prevention and detection, and consultancy on the implementation of monitoring programs for time-critical applications.

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).

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