Plagiarism Detection with Genetic-Based Parameter Tuning

Miguel A. Sanchez-Perez, Alexander Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov, Helena Gómez-Adorno

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Abstract

A crucial step in plagiarism detection is text alignment. This task consists in finding similar text fragments between two given documents. We introduce an optimization methodology based on genetic algorithms to improve the performance of a plagiarism detection model by optimizing its input parameters. The implementation of the genetic algorithm is based on nonbinary representation of individuals, elitism selection, uniform crossover, and high mutation rate. The obtained parameter settings allow the plagiarism detection model to achieve better results than the state-of-the-art approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1860006
JournalInternational Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
Volume32
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2018

Keywords

  • Plagiarism detection
  • genetic algorithms
  • optimization
  • text alignment

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