Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: This paper will first take an overview of plagiarism as a problem, particularly in the field of Higher Education.It will give an outline of pedagogic issues, and approaches to reducing the problem.A significant deterrent is the practice of running students' work through plagiarism detectors, and ensuring that students realise how effectively this can be done.New research indicates that electronic copy detection can also be applied to Chinese text, as is currently done for English and for programming code.We describe one such detector, the Ferret, outlining its application to English text and its potential for use in other domains including Chinese language.We show how the Ferret is based on exploiting underlying characteristics of English word distribution, and that Chinese characters have a similar distribution.The paper concludes by comparing and contrasting man and machine when it comes to identifying copied material, and indicating how their differing memory processes can be harnessed to detect plagiarism.
Authors: Caroline Lyon, Ruth Barrett, James A. Malcolm
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2150862929