the core concept of plagiarism is defined as the use of other people's ideas or words without proper acknowledgement. herein, we used a questionnaire to assess the knowledge of students of tehran university of medical sciences (tums) regarding plagiarism and copyright infringement. the questionnaire comprised 8 questions. the first six questions of the questionnaire were translations of exercis...

In today’s university life, teachers are often confronted with plagiarism. A special form of plagiarism is source code plagiarism typically found in programming courses at universities and schools. Detecting or even preventing source code plagiarism is by no means a trivial task. Therefore, this paper explains and discusses different methods that can be used to prevent and detect source code pl...

Plagiarism is a serious problem in computer science. This paper reports the analyses of data about plagiarism that was gathered from master level students in computing. We have identified how students perceive plagiarism, how they choose to respond when faced by a scenario involving plagiarism, and what drives them to take a particular stance or adopt an action. The data-driven analyses show co...

Online plagiarism tutorials are increasingly popular in higher education, as faculty and staff try to curb the plagiarism epidemic. Yet no research has validated the efficacy of such tools in minimizing plagiarism in the sciences. Our study compared three plagiarism-avoidance training regimens (i.e., no training, online tutorial, or homework assignment) and their impacts on students' ability to...

The 1st International Competition on Plagiarism Detection, held in conjunction with the 3rd PAN workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse, brought together researchers from many disciplines around the exciting retrieval task of automatic plagiarism detection. The competition was divided into the subtasks external plagiarism detection and intrinsic plagiarism dete...

Plagiarism which is defined as “the wrongful appropriation of other writers’ or authors’ works and ideas without citing or informing them” poses a major challenge to knowledge spread publication. Plagiarism has been placed in four categories of direct, paraphrasing (rewriting), translation, and combinatory. This paper addresses translational plagiarism which is sometimes referred to as cross-li...

In this paper, a plagiarism detection tool for plagiarism detection in Malayalam documents is presented. Many language-sensitive tools for detecting plagiarism in natural language documents have been developed, particularly for English. Detecting plagiarism in Malayalam documents is particularly a challenging task because of the complex linguistic structure of Malayalam. The plagiarism detectio...

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...

In this paper, a plagiarism detection tool for plagiarism detection in Malayalam documents is presented. Many language-sensitive tools for detecting plagiarism in natural language documents have been developed, particularly for English. Detecting plagiarism in Malayalam documents is particularly a challenging task because of the complex linguistic structure of Malayalam. The plagiarism detectio...

In this paper, a plagiarism detection tool for plagiarism detection in Malayalam documents is presented. Many language-sensitive tools for detecting plagiarism in natural language documents have been developed, particularly for English. Detecting plagiarism in Malayalam documents is particularly a challenging task because of the complex linguistic structure of Malayalam. The plagiarism detectio...