Several media outlets recently covered our research on Plagiarism Prevention and Detection and our prototype system CitePlag. Articles appeared in the national daily newspaper "Die Welt" and the regional daily newspaper "Schwäbische Zeitung". The national public radio broadcaster "Deutschlandradio" covered CitePlag on their website and in an expert interview.
An article about our plagiarism detection system CitePlag appeared in uni'kon #59. Click on the picture to see the article in high resolution.
CitePlag is the first prototype of a citation-based Plagiarism Detection (CbPD) System. The prototype was recently demonstrated at the SIGIR conference 2013. What makes CitePlag novel? In contrast to existing text-based approaches to plagiarism detection, CitePlag does not solely analyze literal text matches to determine document suspiciousness – but rather, CitePlag makes use of the unique citation placement in the full-text of documents to determine similarity [...]
