Extending Web Search for Online Plagiarism Detection

As information technologies advance, the data amount gathered on the Internet increases at an incredible rapid speed. To solve the data overloading problem, people commonly use Web search engines to find what they need. However, as search engines become an efficient and effective tool, plagiarists can grab, reassemble and redistribute text contents without much difficulty. In this paper, we develop an online detection system to reduce such misapplication of search engines. Specifically, suspicious documents are extracted and verified through the collaboration of our plagiarism detection system and search engines. With a proper design, extracted text segments are given different priorities when sending them to search engines as the ascertainment of plagiarism. This greatly reduces unnecessary and repetitive works when performing plagiarism detection.