Plagiarism detection is defined as automatic identification of reused text materials. General availability of the internet and easy access to textual information enhances the need for automated plagiarism detection. In this regard, different algorithms have been proposed to perform the task of plagiarism detection in text documents. Due to drawbacks and inefficiency of traditional methods and l...

Plagiarism refers to the act of “appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit” (1). Most academic researchers reach a consensus that plagiarism is a serious breach of publication ethics (2). Plagiarism has different forms but can be categorized into two general distinct categories – plagiarism of ideas and plagiarism of text (verbatim)....

Efficient detection of plagiarism in programming assignments of students is of a great importance to the educational procedure. This paper presents a clustering oriented approach for facing the problem of source code plagiarism. The implemented software, called PDetect, accepts as input a set of program sources and extracts subsets (the clusters of plagiarism) such that each program within a pa...

Currently there is an increase in the occurrence of plagiarism in varied types of academic texts. Therefore, in agreement with the Brazilian Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) policies, Brazilian higher education institutions should establish guidelines for the detection and inhibition of academic plagiarism. However, the notion of plagiarism is extremely complex,...

This paper reports on a pilot project of the Turnitin plagiarism detection software, which was implemented to determine the impact of the software on the level of plagiarism among University of Botswana (UB) students. Students’ assignments were first submitted to the software without their knowledge so as to gauge their level of plagiarism. The results recorded the average level of plagiarism a...

The simple access to texts on digital libraries and the WWW has led to an increased number of plagiarism cases in recent years, which renders manual plagiarism detection infeasible at large. Various methods for automatic plagiarism detection have been developed whose objective is to assist human experts to analyze documents for plagiarism. Unlike other tasks in natural language processing and i...

Plagiarism; an un-attributed reuse of text, is very significant problem specifically for higher education institutions. Consequently, a number of automated plagiarism detection system have been developed to cater this problem. The comparison of these automated plagiarism detection systems is difficult sue to problem in collecting real cases of plagiarism by students / scholars. This paper descr...

In this paper, a plagiarism detection tool for plagiarism detection in Malayalam documents is presented. Many language-sensitive tools for detecting plagiarism in natural language documents have been developed, particularly for English. Detecting plagiarism in Malayalam documents is particularly a challenging task because of the complex linguistic structure of Malayalam. The plagiarism detectio...

In this paper, a plagiarism detection tool for plagiarism detection in Malayalam documents is presented. Many language-sensitive tools for detecting plagiarism in natural language documents have been developed, particularly for English. Detecting plagiarism in Malayalam documents is particularly a challenging task because of the complex linguistic structure of Malayalam. The plagiarism detectio...

In this paper, a plagiarism detection tool for plagiarism detection in Malayalam documents is presented. Many language-sensitive tools for detecting plagiarism in natural language documents have been developed, particularly for English. Detecting plagiarism in Malayalam documents is particularly a challenging task because of the complex linguistic structure of Malayalam. The plagiarism detectio...