Abstract:
All methodologies for detecting plagiarism to date have focused on the final digital outcome, such as a document or source code. Our novel approach takes the creation pro...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
All methodologies for detecting plagiarism to date have focused on the final digital outcome, such as a document or source code. Our novel approach takes the creation process into account using logged events collected by special software or by the macro recorders found in most office applications. We look at an author's interaction logs with the software used to create the work. Detection relies on comparing the histograms of multiple logs command use. A work is classified as plagiarism if its log deviates too much from logs of honestly created works or if its log is too similar to another log. The technique supports the detection of plagiarism for digital outcomes that stem from unique tasks, such as theses and equal tasks such as assignments for which the same problem sets are solved by multiple students. Focusing on the latter case, we evaluate this approach using logs collected by an interactive development environment (IDE) from more than 60 students who completed three programming assignments.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies ( Volume: 11, Issue: 3, 01 July-Sept. 2018)
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- IEEE Keywords
- Index Terms
- Creative Process ,
- Histogram ,
- Source Code ,
- Final Outcome ,
- Event Log ,
- Unique Task ,
- Plagiarism Detection ,
- Logistics ,
- Final Product ,
- Digital Technologies ,
- Sequence Of Events ,
- Distribution Of Effects ,
- Amount Of Work ,
- Human-computer Interaction ,
- Automatic Detection ,
- Manual Inspection ,
- Outlier Detection ,
- Debugging ,
- Goal Of Experiment ,
- Short Amount Of Time ,
- Single Command ,
- Text Editor ,
- Kinds Of Events ,
- Menu Items ,
- Refactoring ,
- Mouse Click ,
- Error Message ,
- Log Files ,
- Fellow Students ,
- Statistical Differences
- Author Keywords
Keywords assist with retrieval of results and provide a means to discovering other relevant content. Learn more.
- IEEE Keywords
- Index Terms
- Creative Process ,
- Histogram ,
- Source Code ,
- Final Outcome ,
- Event Log ,
- Unique Task ,
- Plagiarism Detection ,
- Logistics ,
- Final Product ,
- Digital Technologies ,
- Sequence Of Events ,
- Distribution Of Effects ,
- Amount Of Work ,
- Human-computer Interaction ,
- Automatic Detection ,
- Manual Inspection ,
- Outlier Detection ,
- Debugging ,
- Goal Of Experiment ,
- Short Amount Of Time ,
- Single Command ,
- Text Editor ,
- Kinds Of Events ,
- Menu Items ,
- Refactoring ,
- Mouse Click ,
- Error Message ,
- Log Files ,
- Fellow Students ,
- Statistical Differences
- Author Keywords