Textual kidnapping - a case of plagiarism among three student texts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19535509 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison May (0000-0002-8757-8053, Hill College, corresponding author), Alison Johnson (0000-0002-1113-1191) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 210-225 |
| Publication date | 1997-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Speech Language and the Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-8885 • E-ISSN: 1748-8893 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1558/ijsll.v4i2.210 |
| OpenAlex | W1988888858 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The linguistic analysis of text for forensic purposes has been developing rapidly over the past decade. However, the discipline has done so in spite of a lack of established tools, methods or theories. Writers in the field have been contributing to a suite of techniques and methods of analysis and this paper offers some further tools for the statistical analysis of text. A case of alleged plagiarism is investigated through the use of two computer programs: Vocalyse and File Comparison. The discussion demonstrates how a quantitative statistical investigation of hapaxes, unique and common lexical and closed class vocabulary can support a qualitative textual analysis, in order to establish whether a case of plagiarism has occurred. The statistical tools and methods explained are offered as examples for use and development by readers
Linguistics · Mathematics education · Natural language processing · Plagiarism detection · Statistical analysis · Statistics · Suite · Vocabulary · Authorship Attribution and Profiling · Computer Science · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · History · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2017 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |