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Plago: A system for plagiarism detection and intervention in massive courses

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Guida, Carmine T.
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Joyner, David A.
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Plago is as a tool for Instructors and TAs, especially in massive (200+ students) courses. Plago imports students’ essay style PDF assignment submissions directly from Canvas LMS and prepares them for scanning for plagiarism. Comparisons against a corpus of tens of thousands of existing papers takes a few minutes and flags potential plagiarism based on match percentages. Additionally, Plago provides evidence of plagiarism in way of a side by side comparison of papers with highlighting on matching text between the two papers. Plago uses an extrinsic method of plagiarism detection based on n-gram comparisons for content and structural similarities. The paper also provides research and discussion on intrinsic methods.
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2019-07-22
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