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PlagZap: A Textual Plagiarism Detection System for Student Assignments Built with Open-Source Software

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International Joint Conference SOCO’18-CISIS’18-ICEUTE’18 (SOCO’18-CISIS’18-ICEUTE’18 2018)

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Abstract

Plagiarism among university students is an important issue that affects their preparation and undermines the universities’ efforts to prepare skilled graduates. Universities try to fight-back this problem with strict ethics policies, but they require the proper plagiarism detection tools, at affordable costs, to implement these policies. In this paper, we present PlagZap, a cost-efficient, high-volume, and high-speed plagiarism detection system built using open-source software and designed to be used on textual student assignments (essays, theses, homework). We discuss the advantages of this design with respect to speed, precision and costs.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Informatics, “Ovidius” University of Constanta, Constanța, Romania

    Elena Băutu

  2. Department of Navigation and Naval Transport, “Mircea cel Batran” Naval Academy, Constanța, Romania

    Andrei Băutu

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  1. Computational Intelligence Group, University of the Basque Country, Sarriena, Vizcaya, Spain

    Manuel Graña

  2. Computational Intelligence Group, University of the Basque Country, Sarriena, Vizcaya, Spain

    José Manuel López-Guede

  3. Computational Intelligence Group, University of the Basque Country, Sarriena, Vizcaya, Spain

    Oier Etxaniz

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Burgos, Burgos, Burgos, Spain

    Álvaro Herrero

  5. University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    José Antonio Sáez

  6. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of A Coruña, La Coruña, La Coruña, Spain

    Héctor Quintián

  7. University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Emilio Corchado

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Băutu, E., Băutu, A. (2019). PlagZap: A Textual Plagiarism Detection System for Student Assignments Built with Open-Source Software. In: Graña, M., et al. International Joint Conference SOCO’18-CISIS’18-ICEUTE’18. SOCO’18-CISIS’18-ICEUTE’18 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 771. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94120-2_48

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