Plagiarism sometimes creates legal and ethical problems for students and faculty. It can have serious consequences. Fortunately, there are ways to stop plagiarism. There are many tools available to detect plagiarism, e.g. using software for detecting submitted articles. Also, there are many ways to punish a plagiarist, e.g. banning plagiarists from submitting future articles for publication. In...

This paper aims to stimulate discussion about how editors should respond to plagiarism. Different types of plagiarism are described in terms of their: extent, originality of the copied material, context, referencing, intention, author seniority, and language. Journal responses to plagiarism are also described including: educating authors, contacting authors’ institutions, issuing corrections, a...

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.

The availability and use of computers in teaching has seen an increase in the rate of plagiarism among students because of the wide availability of electronic texts online. While computer tools that have appeared in the recent years are capable of detecting simple forms of plagiarism, such as copy-paste, a number of recent research studies devoted to evaluation and comparison of plagiarism dete...

Plagiarism is a common place in academics, especially in courses involving programming. In this paper, XPDec, an XML-based model is introduced to detect similarities among programs that arise under plagiarism. Based upon the syntax of a specific programming language, XPDec uses an XML scheme that is suitable for the detection of plagiarism. XML documents are generated from given program sources...

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...

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...

ABSTRACT: The copying of programming assignments is a widespread problem in academic institutions. Manual plagiarism detection is time-consuming, and current popular plagiarism detection systems are not scalable to large code repositories. While there are text-based plagiarism detection systems capable of handling millions of student papers, comparable systems for codebased plagiarism detection...

This paper presents our approach to detect plagiarism in the PAN’10 competition. To accomplish this task we applied a method which aims at detecting external plagiarism cases. The method is specially designed to detect crosslanguage plagiarism and is composed by five phases: language normalization, retrieval of candidate documents, classifier training, plagiarism analysis, and post-processing. ...

Plagiarism detection is the process of locating text reuse within a suspicious document. The plagiarism detection corpora are used for evaluating plagiarism detection systems. In this paper, we present a bilingual PersianEnglish plagiarism detection corpus. We provide our corpus for the task of text alignment corpus construction in the PAN 2015 competition. Our approach is based on parallel cor...