Also, sorry for the double post but check out http://www.ithenticate.com/
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Mutaz Musa <mutazm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually turnitin.com, a website where students turn in schoolwork, checks > for plagiarism and from what I understand does a pretty good job. They > compare both student-to-student and student-to-literature. I'm not sure how > they pull it off, probably a proprietary algorithm that tries to match > student submissions against their database of content where no match = no > plagiarism. It seems like a mammoth task though. Turnitin.com actually > crawls academic journals, books, etc. to populate their database. > > If you're interested only in comparing submissions to your site against one > another that may be more manageable. If on the other hand you want to > compare against online/print content in general then that will prove a real > challenge. Finally, if you have the money maybe you can register with > turnitin.com - although my impression is that their primarily for > universities/colleges. > > http://turnitin.com/static/index.html > > Best, > Mutaz > > > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Hans Zaunere <li...@zaunere.com> wrote: > >> > Hi Friends, >> >> Hi, >> >> > I am developing blogger website using PHP & MySQL. And, I would like >> > add the feature of Plagiarism Checker. >> > >> > If any one posted an article in my website, that article must be unique >> > and original. >> > >> > Could you please tell / suggest me how to develop Plagiarism Checker >> > feature or send some useful articles / free APIs and so on. >> >> Hmm, I think there is a recursion problem here - if we tell you, then >> you'd >> be plagiarizing our solution :) >> >> > Expecting your positive reply ...... >> >> Seriously though, unless I'm missing something, I can't see how this would >> be possible. I suppose you could use techniques such as comparing the >> number of similar words between articles, but that's not really exact, and >> likely to have incorrect results. Plus, you're looking to do this >> plagiarism check across the whole Internet? >> >> Even humans, who read different articles, have a hard time determining if >> something is actually plagiarized or not - I think doing it automatically >> is >> nearly impossible. >> >> H >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >> >> http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation >> > >
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