Smart copying

Smart copying

Can imitation be considered one of the most successful strategies in business? My answer is " yes ". It appears that this topic is getting more and more attention nowadays. It is well known that Apple's success can be attributed to taking existing ideas and repackaging them with excellent design. However, no one can readily blame Steven Jobs for lacking originality. Even if the ideas for his co...

Cut-primed smart copying

Texture synthesis through so-called ‘smart copying’ requires a seamless meshing of texture subparts. Current systems first select subparts that seem to globally fit well and then optimise the cut between them on a rather local scale. This order of first selecting patches and then caring about the seamless meshing reduces one’s leeway in the choice of seamless cuts to a small zone of overlap bet...

Customising a Copying-Identifier for Biomedical Science Student Reports: Comparing Simple and Smart Analyses

The aim of our project is to develop a system for detecting student copying in Biomedical Science laboratory practical reports. We compare contrasting approaches: “simple” methods Zipping, based on a standard file-compression tool, and Bigrams, a basic comparison of frequent bigrams; and “smart” methods using commercial-strength plagiarism-checking systems Turnitin, Copycatch, and Copyfind. Bot...

Beyond Copying

Detecting student copying in a corpus of science laboratory reports: simple and smart approaches

This case study is an evaluation of generic, general-purpose plagiarism detection systems applied to a specific domain and task: detecting intra-class student copying in a corpus of Biomedical Science laboratory reports. From the outset, our project had the practical, pragmatic aim to find a workable solution to a specific problem. Biomedical Science undergraduates learn experimental methods by...