Automatic plagiarism detection among term papers

  • Authors:
  • Takahisa Ota;Shigeru Masuyama

  • Affiliations:
  • Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan;Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Recently, plagiarized term papers have become a serious problem. Therefore, we propose, in this paper, a method to detect plagiarized parts between two term papers. Our method is based on the Smith-Waterman algorithm that can detect similar parts between two molecules. Moreover, we experimented on our method using a document set consisting of actually submitted term papers and artificially-produced ones that plagiarized a paper written on the same theme. Experimental results show that our method attains higher accuracy than conventional ones.