> 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
Interesting, didn't realize stuff like this was out there... And anyway, I thought this appropriate on this thread for a Friday: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100514/0133339425.shtml H _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
