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Fake Scientific Paper Detector

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the paper-unnoticed-amidst-conference-white-noise dept.

moon_monkey writes "Ever wondered whether a scientific paper was actually written by a robot? A new program developed by researchers at Indiana University promises to tell you one way or the other. It was actually developed in response to a prank by MIT researchers who generated a paper from random bits of text and got it accepted for a conference."

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  1. Re:Self defeating? by cp.tar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I recently had to check out an essay-grading robot for my Introduction to Natural Language Processing class.

    I'd fed it the introduction of a randomly generated essay. It got a 4/5 on all counts.

    I figure, if teachers are going to use robots to grade essays, we should use robots to create them in the first place.

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  2. Trying Wikipedia articles by Animats · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I've been trying my own papers and articles from Wikipedia. My own papers all score around 90%. Wikipedia articles that I consider good ones seem to score in the 80% range. Badly written fancruft scores very low.

    Some variant on this thing might be useful as a new article filter in Wikipedia. We need more automation over there to stem the flow of incoming dreck.