Although the exponential growth of the internet has made it easier than ever to carry out plagiarism, it has also made it much easier to detect. This paper will give an overview of the many different methods of detecting web-based plagiarism which are currently available, assessing practical matters such as cost, functionality and performance. Different types of plagiarism detection services wi...

This paper overviews 15 plagiarism detectors that have been evaluated within the fourth international competition on plagiarism detection at PAN’12. We report on their performances for two sub-tasks of external plagiarism detection: candidate document retrieval and detailed document comparison. Furthermore, we introduce the PAN plagiarism corpus 2012, the TIRA experimentation platform, and the ...

Plagiarism detection is a sensitive field of research which has gained lot of interest in the past few years. Although plagiarism detection systems are developed to check text in a variety of languages, they perform better when they are dedicated to check a specific language as they take into account the specificity of the language which leads to better quality results. Query optimization and d...

This paper aims to explain the performance of plagiarism detection system which can detect External as well as Intrinsic Plagiarism in text. It reports the results on PAN-PC-2011 test corpus. We investigated Vector Space Model based techniques for detecting external plagiarism cases and discourse markers based features to detect intrinsic plagiarism cases.

This paper reports about the development of a Plagiarism detection system as a part of the Plagiarism detection task in PAN 2011. The external plagiarism detection problem has been solved with the help of Nutch, an open source Information Retrieval (IR) system. The system contains three phases – knowledge preparation, candidate retrieval and plagiarism detection. From the source documents, know...

One strategy in the prevention and detection of plagiarism and collusion is to use an automated detection tool. We argue that, for consistent treatment of students, we should be applying these tools to ALL written submissions in a given assignment rather than merely using a detection tool to confirm suspicions that a single text has been plagiarised. In this paper we describe our investigations...

Self-plagiarism requires clear definition within an environment that places integrity at the heart of the research enterprise. This paper explores the whole notion of self-plagiarism by academics and distinguishes between appropriate and inappropriate textual re-use in academic publications, while considering research on other forms of plagiarism such as student plagiarism. Based on the practic...

This paper briefly describes the approach taken to Persian Plagiarism Detection based on modification to the approach used for PAN between 2011 and 2014 in order to adapt to Persian. This effort has offered us the opportunity to evaluate detection performance for the same approach with another language. A key part of the motivation remains that of undertaking plagiarism detection in such a way ...

Recently, the problem of plagiarism is becoming an important issue in many debates in the fields of Education and Technology. The wide use and availability of electronic resources makes it easy for students, authors and even academic people to access and use any piece of information and embed it into his/ her own work without proper citation. The problem is raising in an exponential manner the ...