Tool to catch plagiarism

re: Tool to catch plagiarism

Edge — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 09:53:21 GMT

Interesting, and sad.. I hope plagiarism doesn't become a big problem for bloggers.

re: Tool to catch plagiarism

jmstall — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 10:25:46 GMT

I wrote up some preliminary stuff and it's interesting and promising. Some issues I observe:
- It would be easy for this to generate false positives. For example, if both your blog and blog X quote article Y, blog X may not link to you. The tool needs to be smart.
- The RSS / atom feed is a great way of getting the input data, but it only works for recent entries.

My suspicion is that you could write a tool that could present you with some reasonable plagiarism candidates - but it will be difficult to make it more than 95% sure.

re: Tool to catch plagiarism

Miki Watts — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:35:12 GMT

There is something called Simian (http://www.redhillconsulting.com.au/products/simian/)which is supposed to search for duplicate text, maybe it can be adapted to this?

Sample code to execute MSN searches from C#

Mike Stall's .NET Debugging Blog — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:05:30 GMT

For kicks, I started writing a tool to use internet searches to automatically catch plagiarism. The first...

re: Tool to catch plagiarism

Mike Weller — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:03:35 GMT

There is indeed a tool that does just this...

I can't for the life of me remember what it's called or where it is... I'll try and find it

re: Tool to catch plagiarism

Mike Weller — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:05:55 GMT

Here it is... not quite how i remembered it, but it might help

http://copyscape.com/

Sample code to execute MSN searches from C#

Mike Stall's .NET Debugging Blog — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:19:57 GMT

For kicks, I started writing a tool to use internet searches to automatically catch plagiarism. The first...

re: Tool to catch plagiarism

Richard Ashcroft — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:02:01 GMT

I am a small-time webmaster with several webpages I maintain simply for my own satisfaction and for the enjoyment of other people like me. Recently, I found a corporate site that has, in my opinion, plagiarised my site, it was very frustrating.

Sample code for Plagiarism Searcher tool

Mike Stall's .NET Debugging Blog — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:46:23 GMT

Here's my sample code for a tool to catch blog plagiarism that I described earlier. In retrospect, it...

re: Tool to catch plagiarism

jmstall — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:37:55 GMT

Richard - I'm sorry to hear about that. Surely there must be something you can do. Did they take something concrete (like code or text) or something more abstract (like a "style" or color scheme).

Sample code for Plagiarism Searcher tool

Mike Stall's .NET Debugging Blog — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:41:06 GMT

Here's my sample code for a tool to catch blog plagiarism that I described earlier. In retrospect, it...

Mike Stall: Tool to catch Blog Plagiarism

Building Awareness in Software Security; Mobile Technologies — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:35:50 GMT

There is even such tool out there to catch blog's plagiarism. LOL!http://blogs.msdn.com/jmstall/archive/2005/08/21/plagiarism_tool.aspxSomething...