BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY

BAHIR DAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

FACULTY OF COMPUTING
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Program: MSC (Regular)
Title: Plagiarism checker

By: Bizuayehu Tadege presented to: Million M. (PHD)

ID: BDU1300729 presentation date: May 2021
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Outlines
• Overview and concepts
• Approaches
• Architecture
• Advantage and disadvantages
• Application
• Conclusion remark

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Overview and concepts
What is plagiarism?
• According to oxford English dictionary plagiarism is “ the act of
taking someone's work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own ”.
• It is a way of using author’s ideas , text, or work without proper
citation.
• It is paraphrasing of a certain sentence or paragraph rather than
citation of the actual documents.

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• There are different types of plagiarisms:
• Paraphrasing plagiarism: rephrasing some one else’s idea without citation
• Self plagiarism: reusing of passages or ideas from previously submitted work
• Mosaic plagiarism: combining ideas from more than two source with out
proper citation.
What is checker?
• Is the practice of analyzing a certain document with other documents
to identify the document is plagiarized or not.

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Cont.…
• To detect existence of those plagiarism type different software tools
are developed to detect automatically in short time and cost efficiently.
• Plagiarism checker :is a tool/software that takes input document from
users world and identify/detect, is the document duplicated or
plagiarized from other documents that written by others.

• It used to check the similarity between a given document with other

documents that are documented by others like researchers

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Approaches
In plagiarism checking process , there are different approaches
followed:
• Rule based approach: this is based on the rule defined, the algorithm
identify the given document is plagiarized or not from other document
sources.
• Learning based approach: this approach based on learning of a
certain document and perform a similarity between a given document
with those learned documents
• This approach use machine learning technique

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Cont...
• Under machine learning there are three methods of learning:
• Supervised learning: this is the task of machine learning, based on labeled
trained data to perform a similarity between input document with trained
model.
• Unsupervised learning: this is also other techniques of machine learning
based on unlabeled data means that the machine itself learn the document and
create a pattern then perform similarity with users input document.

• Hybrid learning: it is techniques of machine learning with the combination of

two learning techniques. Unsupervised preprocess the given document and
supervised learn the preprocessed data
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Methods of plagiarism checker
• Vector based method : by identifying the tokens of the given
document perform an similarity measures between documents
• Syntax based method: it is based on part of speech tag of a phrase
and words in different statement.
• Semantic based method: analyzing the meaning of the sentences
even if the statement described in different ways using VSM b/n
documents
• Structure based method: this is method analysis the lexical,
syntactic, and semantic features of a document to find similarity
between two documents
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Architecture

Figure1: General architecture of plagiarism checker

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Cont…
• It is a technique/way that followed to check a given document is plagiarized or not
within the existing documents.
• In plagiarism checking there are a number of steps to detect a document is pure or
not. i.e.
• Input document: documents to being analyze
• Text preprocessing: tokenization, stop word removal, stemming and
normalization are performed on the input document
• Language translation: way of converting one language to other laguages
• Encoding: is a process to training a model
• Matching: Analysis of existing and conducted research paper using algorithm
• The result of the analysis is displayed

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Advantages of plagiarism checker
• Plagiarism checker used for:
• To free from plagiarisms
• To check quality of works
• It is easy to use
• It solves problem of document duplication
• It is very important for better writing
• To save time and cost by detecting in short time and cost efficiently

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Disadvantages of plagiarism checker
• It is not show the detail of plagiarized content, only show similarity
score
• It provides false positive for common phrases
• It is not make researcher to conduct a research freely

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Application
• Educational institution: to know students assignment and also teachers free
from any plagiarism.

• Research centers: to know every document is free from plagiarism to publish

the document like journal/article/book publishers.

• Multimedia production: used for video/audio detection for multimedia

company like YouTube.

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Conclusion remark
• Plagiarism checker is a software application used to identify the
research paper/book/article/journal are plagiarized or not by applying
matching algorithm between documents.
• This mechanism is very important for researchers as well as
educational institutions.
• It used to enhance the purity of a document.
• It is a best mechanism in research world by Appling this technique we
can solve the problem of document duplication or plagiarism.
• It efficiently identify a document based on the trained documents.

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Cont…
• Even if the plagiarism checker have the above strength it have a
limitation of it take time to train/learn a given document.

• In research there are a number of common phrases, but the plagiarism

checker detect those phrases as plagiarized from others.

• Every plagiarism checker have a limitation to detect a given

documents, like number of word, sentence block and paragraphs take
for detection.

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Cont…
• As recommendation of plagiarism checker, still there is no Amharic
language plagiarism checker to identify the document is plagiarized or
not. So we can conduct a research on Ethiopian language plagiarism
checker.

• And also it does not have a multilingual plagiarism checker for any
language automatically. So we can conduct a research on multilingual
plagiarism checker.

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