AraPlagDet is the first shared task that addresses the evaluation of plagiarism detection methods for Arabic texts. It has two subtasks, namely external plagiarism detection and intrinsic plagiarism detection. A total of 8 runs have been submitted and tested on the standardized corpora developed for the track. This overview paper describes these evaluation corpora, discusses the participants’ m...

This study reports on research article (RA) authors’ definitional understanding and sociocultural perceptions of intertextuality and plagiarism in academic writing. To meet this end, a questionnaire, consisting of three sections, was constructed and emailed to Iranian RA authors who have published in leading international and local applied linguistics journals. The findings of the first two sec...

Research in external plagiarism detection is mainly concerned with the comparison of the textual contents of a suspicious document against the contents of a collection of original documents. More recently, methods that try to detect plagiarism based on citation patterns have been proposed. These methods are particularly useful for detecting plagiarism in scientific publications. In this work, w...

Background: Planning for the decrease of scientific misconducts among students requires the recognition of subjects and relevant cases. The aim of the current study is determining the categories of scientific immorality among university students and categorizing them. Method: The current study is in the category of descriptive studies and data gathering is done using the systematic review meth...

Increasing access to and availability of electronic resources presents students with a rich library of opportunities for independent study. But students also find themselves in the confusing territory of how they should best use these resources within their assessment activities. Likewise, teaching institutions are faced with the problems of plagiarism and collusion, and the challenges of educa...

The detection of plagiarism in scholarly articles is a complex process. It requires not just quantitative analysis with the similarity recording by anti-plagiarism software but also assessment of the readers' opinion, pointing to the theft of ideas, methodologies, and graphics. In this article we describe a blatant case of plagiarism by Chinese authors, who copied a Russian article from a non-i...

We proposed an Architectural model for detecting plagiarism in natural language text and presented the analysis of various detection processes followed for effective plagiarism detection. Other plagiarism detection mechanisms are based on parsing techniques where sentence and word chunking is performed to extract phrases which are searched on internet in comparison to that we performed sentence...

Large programming classes are traditionally an area of concern for maintaining the integrity of the educational process. Systematic inspection of all program solutions for evidence of plagiarism can be done using an automated tool. The ``Measure Of Software Similarity'' tool developed by Alex Aiken at the University of California at Berkeley analyzes a set of programs to detect evidence of “dup...

Plagiarism has always been a concern in many sectors, particularly in education. With the sharp rise in the number of electronic resources available online, an increasing number of plagiarism cases has been observed in recent years. As the amount of source materials is vast, the use of plagiarism detection tools has become the norm to aid the investigation of possible plagiarism cases. This pap...