Source Code and Text Plagiarism Detection Strategies
Maeve Paris · Ulster University Research Portal (Ulster University) · 2003
Plagiarism and collusion among students may be facilitated by the preponderance of material in electronic format and the ability to submit coursework online.A distinction has generally been drawn between plagiarism of text and plagiarism of source code, and different tools and metrics have been developed for either type.However, if a computer programming language is considered to be similar to a natural language (although it has a restricted syntax and vocabulary), computerassisted text analysis techniques may be employed to assist the academic in detecting plagiarism in source code.So computational linguistics might inform software metrics, and vice versa.