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Computer-based plagiarism detection methods and tools: an overview

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The paper is dedicated to plagiarism problem. The ways how to reduce plagiarism: both: plagiarism prevention and plagiarism detection are discussed. Widely used plagiarism detection methods are described. The most known plagiarism detection tools are analysed.

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    CompSysTech '07: Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Computer systems and technologies
    June 2007
    761 pages
    ISBN:9789549641509
    DOI:10.1145/1330598

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