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Plagiarism Detection, Types & Tools - Turnitin
What is Included?
- Steal idea
- Use production without crediting
- Commit literary theft
- Present new idea derived from existing source
- Failing to quote
It can be deliberate (intentional) or accidental (unintentional)
Detection Technique
Text based β tools
- PlagAware β online search engine
- PlagScan β online software with unique signature,
- CheckforPlagiarism. net β fingerprint based approach,
- iThenticate -1st online plagiarism checker in 30 languages,
- PlagiarismDetection. org β own database
Source code based tools β computer codes (lexical similarities, parse tree, program dependent and metrics) .
- MOSS β measure of software similarity
- JPlag β compare programs in pairs
- Code Match
- Fingerprint: The sets represent the fingerprints and their elements are called minutiae.
- A suspicious document is checked for plagiarism by computing its fingerprint and querying minutiae with a precomputed index of fingerprints for all documents of a reference collection.
Detection
Monolingual Plagiarism Detection: This type of detection deals with homogeneous language settings e. g. , English-English
- Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection: This detection approach analyses the writing style or uniqueness of the author
- Extrinsic Plagiarism Detection: Unlike the intrinsic approach, this approach compares a submitted research article against many other available relevant digital resources in repositories
Cross-Lingual Plagiarism Detection (CLPD) : This detection approach is able to perform in heterogeneous language settings e. g. , English-Chinese.
Turnitin Software
- To be used for PhD thesis plagiarism detection
- Commercial service launched in 1997
- TurnitinΥs parent company, iParadigms LLC, runs the informational website Plagiarism. org and also offers a similar plagiarism-detection service for newspaper editors and book and magazine publishers called iThenticate.
- Other tools included with the Turnitin suite are GradeMark (online grading and feedback) and Peer Mark (peer-review services) .
β Mayank