Shunichi Ishihara

Shunichi Ishihara is a Professor at the School of Culture, History & Language, The Australian National University, where he leads research in forensic linguistics and computational linguistics. His work focuses on forensic text and voice comparison, authorship attribution, and Japanese linguistic studies. He holds qualifications including a PhD (ANU), MSc (Macquarie), MA (ANU), and BEd (Shizuoka).

Research Interests:

• Forensic Voice/Text Comparison
• Computational Linguistics
• Intonational Modelling
• Japanese Language Processing
• Stylometric Analysis

Research Trends: Recent work emphasizes likelihood ratio-based systems for authorship verification, fusion of acoustic and text features for forensic analysis, and applications of deep learning in text evidence evaluation. His studies often explore cross-lingual comparisons (e.g., Japanese, English, Vietnamese) and system validation methodologies.

Grants & Projects:

• "Likelihood project on author recognition" (2024-2026)
• "Big Australian Speech Corpus" (2010-2015)
• Multiple forensic voice/text comparison initiatives

Labs & Teams: Director of the Speech and Language Lab, collaborating on speech corpus development and forensic linguistic systems.