Rewriting of Scientific Text as a Case Study for Linguistic Expert Analysis for Identity, Similarity and Difference
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Semantic comparison of speech products is a labor-intensive linguistic study, separated by experts of the Ministry of Justice of Russia into a new area of forensic expertise - 29.1 "Examination of intellectual property objects". This article considers the difficulties faced by expert linguists conducting research on text comparison. When comparing interrogation protocols, the discovery of text identity serves as an alarming factor, indicating the lack of independence of the source author against the significant role of the content-editor. The established similarity between the studied texts and extremist materials allows us to consider such texts as versions of materials previously included in the list of prohibited ones, which helps to accelerate the deadlines of linguistic expertise. The work of expert linguists on establishing identity-similarity-differences obtains a new research material represented by a rewrite of scientific publications. This article examines the methods used by experts in the course of analyzing a text created by rewriting. Our own linguistic study on the comparison of scientific texts is discussed as well with detailed description of the techniques used to create a surface rewrite of a scientific text. Based on the analysis conducted, it was concluded that the result of surface rewriting is not a new original text, but a version of the source text, or, in other words, a copy text that formally has insignificant differences with the source text and is either identical or significantly similar to it in terms of content. In the work of expert linguists with the purpose of establishing identity-similarity-differences, a new research material appears, which is a rewrite of scientific publications. This article examines the methods used by experts in the course of analyzing a text created by rewriting. Also presented is our own linguistic study on the comparison of scientific texts, during which the techniques used to create a superficial rewrite of a scientific text are described. Based on the analysis conducted, it was concluded that the result of superficial rewriting is not a new original text, but a version of the original text, or, in other words, a copy text that has, in formal terms, insignificant differences with the source text and identical or significant similarities with it in terms of content.
Source: Legal Linguistics
Author: Yana Dudareva
Institution: Kemerovo State University
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409356193