Plagiarism in universities has always been a difficult problem to overcome. Various tools have been developed over the past few years to help teachers detect plagiarism in students’ work. By being able to categorize the multitude of plagiarism detection tools, it is possible to estimate their capabilities, advantages and disadvantages. In this article I consider modern plagiarism software solut...

There is a staggering upsurge in the incidence of plagiarism of scientific literature. Literature shows divergent views about the factors that make plagiarism reprehensible. This review explores the causes and remedies for the perennial academic problem of plagiarism. Data sources were searched for full text English language articles published from 2000 to 2015. Data selection was done using me...

Many researchers have been investigating the task of plagiarism detection lately. In this paper we present RDI system for intrinsic plagiarism detection (RDI_RID). RDI_RID system was the only system that participated in intrinsic track of the Arabic language plagiarism detection competition. RDI_RID system achieved a PlagDet (Plagiarism Detection score) of 19% compared to 38% achieved by the ba...

With due respect to the authors’ rights, plagiarism detection, is one of the critical problems in the field of text-mining that many researchers are interested in. This issue is considered as a serious one in high academic institutions. There exist language-free tools which do not yield any reliable results since the special features of every language are ignored in them. Considering the paucit...

Nowadays, plagiarism has been presented as one of the main distresses that the information technology revolution has lead into our society for which using pattern matching algorithms and intelligent data analysis approaches, these practices could be identified. Furthermore, a fast document copy detection algorithm could be used in large scale applications for plagiarism detection in academia, s...

This paper introduces AntiPlag, an advanced plagiarism detection tool intended for use on student texts. It is capable of both hermetic detection that scrutinizes only local collections of documents (other students’ texts and lecture materials, for example) and web plagiarism detection, in which the aim is at identifying instances of plagiarism that have been sourced from the Internet. The main...

This paper describes the Barcelona Media Innovation Center participation in the 2nd International Competition on Plagiarism Detection. Particularly, our system focused on the external plagiarism detection task, which assumes the source documents are available. We present a two-step a approach. In the first step of our method, we build an information retrieval system based on Solr/Lucene, segmen...

Despite the effort put into the detection of academic plagiarism, it continues to be a ubiquitous problem spanning all disciplines. Various tools have been developed to assist human inspectors by automatically identifying suspicious documents. However, to our knowledge currently none of these tools use mathematical content for their analysis. This is problematic, because mathematical content po...

Plagiarism is an act of stealing or reflecting others ideas or thoughts without the permission of authority or not mentioning that the ideas are the reflection of the authority. Plagiarism of others paper works is a crime, has been caught by plenty of intelligently coded plagiarism detection systems. The reason for this is lack of awareness about plagiarism. Some people are aware about plagiari...

There are increasingly plagiarism offences for students in higher education in the digital educational world. On the other hand, various and competitive online assessment and plagiarism detection tools are available in the market. Taking the University of Glamorgan as a case study, this paper describes and introduces an institutional journey on electronic plagiarism detection to inform the init...