Anti-plagiarism Software: Usage, Effectiveness and Issues

Abstract

In today's digital age, with never ending advances of information technology, plagiarism of textual documents is becoming one of leading issues that causes wide concern in higher education and science.The ubiquity of Internet has created a plethora of possibilities for unacknowledged copying and paraphrasing of other people's work.This has grave legal and moral repercussions for the society and seriously undermines its system of values.This paper discusses different types of document plagiarism and examines methods for their detection.It also presents software solutions that implement particular plagiarism detection techniques.Following the overview in the first part, the paper focuses on the analysis of difficulties arising in the plagiarism detection process and points out to open questions that need to be solved.Moreover, it offers some principal suggestions for possible improvements.Apstrakt: U današnje digitalno doba, koje odlikuju konstantne inovacije u oblasti informacionih tehnologija, pitanje plagijarizma u tekstualnim dokumentima postaje jedno od glavnih problema u domenu nauke i visokog obrazovanja.Sveprisutnost Interneta pruža mnoštvo mogućnosti za nelegalno kopiranje i parafraziranje radova drugih autora.To sa sobom nosi ozbiljne zakonske i moralne posledice za celokupno društvo i ozbiljno podriva njegov sistem vrednosti.U radu se razmatraju različite vrste plagijarizama u tekstualnim dokumentima kao i metode za njihovo otkrivanje.Takođe, pominju se softverska rešenja koja implementiraju određene tehnike za otkrivanje plagijarizama.Nakon kratkog pregleda u prvom odeljku, rad stavlja naglasak na analizu poteškoća koje mogu nastati u procesu otkrivanja plagijarizma i ukazuje na pitanja kojima bi se trebalo pozabaviti.Štaviše, autori nude načelne predloge i sugestije u cilju unapređenja softvera za otkrivanje plagijarizma.

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