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Testing of Support Tools for Plagiarism Detection
Tomáš Foltýnek,Dita Dlabolová,Alla Anohina-Naumeca,Salim Razi,Július Kravjar,Laima Kamzola,Jean Guerrero-Dib,Özgür İlhan Çelik,Debora Weber-Wulff +8 more
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A collaborative test of 15 web-based text-matching systems that can be used when plagiarism is suspected was conducted by researchers from seven countries using test material in eight different languages, evaluating the effectiveness of the systems on singlesource and multi-source documents as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
There is a general belief that software must be able to easily do things that humans find difficult. Since finding sources for plagiarism in a text is not an easy task, there is a wide-spread expectation that it must be simple for software to determine if a text is plagiarized or not. Software cannot determine plagiarism, but it can work as a support tool for identifying some text similarity that may constitute plagiarism. But how well do the various systems work? This paper reports on a collaborative test of 15 web-based text-matching systems that can be used when plagiarism is suspected. It was conducted by researchers from seven countries using test material in eight different languages, evaluating the effectiveness of the systems on single-source and multi-source documents. A usability examination was also performed. The sobering results show that although some systems can indeed help identify some plagiarized content, they clearly do not find all plagiarism and at times also identify non-plagiarized material as problematic.read more
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Taxonomy of academic plagiarism methods
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