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Competition Seeks Best Approaches To Detecting Plagiarism
marpot writes "Does your school/university check your homeworks/theses for plagiarism? Nowadays, probably Yes, but are they doing it properly? Little is known about plagiarism detection accuracy, which is why we conduct a competition on plagiarism detection, sponsored by Yahoo! We have set up a corpus of artificial plagiarism which contains plagiarism with varying degrees of obfuscation, and translation plagiarism from Spanish or German source documents. A random plagiarist was employed who attempts to obfuscate his plagiarism with random sequences of text operations, e.g., shuffling, deleting, inserting, or replacing a word. Translated plagiarism is created using machine translation."
Not only will my solution find those rascally cheaters in record time, it will also determine that all others in the competition have copied my work.
Unix, an obscure operating system developed by bored researchers in an attempt to get a better game playing experience.
Copy and paste some of the text of the suspected document into Google. If something with the same or similar wording comes up, it's plagiarized. Simple!
It isn't faith! It's hard fact. How could something as precise as numbers possibly be misleading or fail to accurately represent the world? I bet that there is an appeals process, where you request three whole extra decimal places, as well. Luxury, I tell you.
Copy and paste some of the document's text into a search machine. If something with about the same wording comes up, it's plagiarized. Simple!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
This is a contest to find and expert on plagiarism. If you're a so-called expert and win, sell your software to somebody else and make another 500 Euro.
I am not a crackpot.