Plagiarism is the “wrongful appropriation” and “stealing and publication” of another author's “language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions” and the representation of them as one's own original work. Plagiarism can also be hidden when text is translated from one language to another with no credit to the version, which is called crosslanguage plagiarism. Plagiarism is widely found in text, document...

In the age of information technology intellectual property becomes especially valuable. This is one of the causes why the cases of the plagiarism appear more frequently in all vital sectors. Due to that, there is a growing need for different instruments for the protection and verification of copyright for finding plagiarism. Before checking the document for plagiarism, reviewing algorithms and ...

Plagiarism causes a serious concern in scientific literature. I distinguish two types of plagiarism. What is routinely highlighted and discussed is the reprehensible type of stealing another author's ideas and words. This type I categorize as "heterotrophic" plagiarism. A more prevalent and less-discussed type of plagiarism is the verbatim use of same sentences repetitively by authors in their ...

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...

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...

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 programming courses is a pervasive and frustrating problem that undermines the educational process. Defining plagiarism is difficult because of the fuzzy boundary between allowable peer-peer collaboration and plagiarism. Pursuing suspected plagiarism has attendant emotional and legal risks to the student and teacher, with the teacher bearing the burden of proof. In this paper we p...

Problem of student plagiarism is one of the biggest concerns in the educational environment and is becoming increasingly extensive among student around the world. Researchers believe that nationality and ethnicity influence diverse interpretations of proper academic behaviour regulations. The observable link between students’ attitudes and their national background becomes a basis for numerous ...