In recent times, plagiarism detection software has become popular in universities and colleges, in an attempt to stem the tide of plagiarized student coursework. Such software attempts to detect any copied material and identify its source. The most popular such software is Turnitin, a commercial system used by thousands of institutions in more than one hundred countries. Here we show how to fix...

AIM The aim of this study was to show how to verify plagiarism of the paper written in Macedonian and translated in foreign language. MATERIAL AND METHODS Original article "Ethics in Medical Research Involving Human Subjects", written in Macedonian, was submitted as an assay-2 for the subject Ethics and published by Ilina Stefanovska, PhD candidate from the Iustinianus Primus Faculty of Law, ...

In this paper, we describe our approach at the PAN@CLEF2013 plagiarism detection competition. In sub-task of Source Retrieval, a method combined TF-IDF, PatTree and Weighted TF-IDF to extract the keywords of suspicious documents as queries to retrieve the plagiarism source document is proposed. In sub-task of Text Alignment, a method based on sentence similarity is presented. Our text alignment...

Sir, the recent article on “Plagiarism in Scientific Publishing” by Masic is very interesting [1]. Masic described cases of plagiarism and concluded that “There is a dilemma: who, on what basis (criteria, standards, rules), when and how should declare someone a plagiarist [1]” and also mentioned for the importance of informatics tool to determine plagiarism. Indeed, it is the role of the journa...

Plagiarism remains at the top in terms of interest to the scientific community. In its many vicious forms, patchwork plagiarism is characterized by numerous unresolved issues and often passes "below the radar" of editors and reviewers. The problem of detecting the complexity of misconduct has been partially resolved by plagiarism detection software. However, interpretation of relevant reports i...

Plagiarism is an illicit act of using other‟s work wholly or partially as one‟s own in any field such as art, poetry literature, cinema, research and other creative forms of study. It has become a serious crime in academia and research fields and access to wide range of resources on the internet has made the situation even worse. Therefore, there is a need for automatic detection of plagiarism ...

The ease with which computer code can be copied by students presents opportunities for plagiarism on programming projects. Presently, instructors are provided with few tools (if any) that assist them in detecting possible plagiarism in an assignment. Therefore, the only solution is a tedious and error prone by hand check of student submissions, looking for similarity between any two. In this th...

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...

In this paper we report on our plagiarism detection system which is used to process the PAN plagiarism corpus for the tasks of Candidate Document Retrieval and Detailed Comparison. To retrieve the plagiarism candidate document by using ChatNoir API, a method based on tf*idf to extract the keywords of suspicious documents as queries is proposed. An Lucene ranking method is used for plagiarism ca...