Fake Scientific Paper Detector

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."

Comments

Re:too bad this technology...

[xxdinkxx]

it seems that some people on slashdot are so mindset-boolean. that it never occured to them that the statement was serious, but the way it was stated was a joke. Go watch some of the absurd things "papa bear" as colbert calls him says... hasn't anyone ever heard the expression never feed a troll.. have a good day.

Better example

[Constantine Evans]

Here is a better example, consisting of me randomly pressing my fingers into the keyboard while pressing space and enter every once in a while. The following text, when copied three times, will give a 97% chance of being an authentic scientific paper. Again there is a curve here, with two reps giving an 80% chance and four giving 91%:

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