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APlag: A plagiarism checker for Arabic texts

El Bachir Menai, Mohamed, Bagais, Manar·2011·2011 6th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE)
DOI 10.1109/iccse.2011.6028888
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Plagiarism is a serious problem, especially in academia and education. Detecting it is a challenging task, particularly in natural language texts. Many plagiarism detection tools have been developed for diverse natural languages, mainly English. Language-independent tools exist as well, but are considered as too restrictive as they usually do not consider specific language features. In this paper, we introduce APlag, a new plagiarism detection tool for Arabic texts, based on a logical representation of a document as paragraphs, sentences, and words, and new heuristics for text comparison. We describe its main attributes and present the results of some experiments conducted on a dummy test set. We demonstrate its effectiveness by comparing its performance to that of APD, a plagiarism detection tool for Arabic. Overall, preliminary results show that APlag significantly improves the results obtained by APD in terms of recall and precision metrics.

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Authors
El Bachir Menai, M., & Bagais, M.
Affiliations
King Saud University (SA)
Venue
2011 6th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2011-08
Pages
1379-1383
DOI
10.1109/iccse.2011.6028888
OpenAlex
W2150409536
Cited by
25
References
1
Citations by year
2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 1 · 2012: 1
FWCI
4.27
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE) (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Academic integrity and plagiarism
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
Keywords
plagiarism detection, Arabic text, document representation, APD, academic integrity

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El Bachir Menai, M., & Bagais, M. (2011). APlag: A plagiarism checker for Arabic texts. 2011 6th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE). https://doi.org/10.1109/iccse.2011.6028888