NYCPHP Meetup

[Hans Zaunere]

> Actually turnitin.com, a website where students turn in schoolwork,
> checks for plagiarism and from what I understand does a pretty good
> job. They compare both student-to-student and student-to-literature.
> I'm not sure how they pull it off, probably a proprietary algorithm
> that tries to match student submissions against their database of
> content where no match = no plagiarism.  It seems like a mammoth task
> though. Turnitin.com actually crawls academic journals, books, etc. to
> populate their database.
> 
> If you're interested only in comparing submissions to your site against
> one another that may be more manageable. If on the other hand you want
> to compare against online/print content in general then that will prove
> a real challenge. Finally, if you have the money maybe you can register
> with turnitin.com - although my impression is that their primarily for
> universities/colleges.
> 
> http://turnitin.com/static/index.html

Interesting, didn't realize stuff like this was out there...

And anyway, I thought this appropriate on this thread for a Friday:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100514/0133339425.shtml

H