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AI Based Student’s Assignments Plagiarism

Detector
Ms. Minakshi Lanke1, Ms. Aishwarya Porwal2, Ms. Sejal Sarolkar3, Mr. Gaurang Palaskar4, Prof. Shital Kakad5
Marathwada Mitra Mandal College Of Engineering, Maharashtra, India

Abstract: The increase in plagiarizing academic contents led to efficient plagiarism detectors. In the conventional plagiarism
detection tools, we have to put the contents from our paper or assignment and paste it into the input box for checking plagiarism
or we have to load our files separately. Software under the domain artificial intelligence is moving towards the creation of a
systems that can make tasks hassle-free and it also saves the time.
“Smart Assignment Plagiarism Detector” can provide easy and efficient way of checking plagiarised data for teachers just in a
single click by uploading a folder. This paper explains how our system is solving the problem of plagiarism through the use of
algorithm in artificial intelligence.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence, Academic plagiarism, Text Similarity, Cosine similarity.

I. INTRODUCTION
The increase in plagiarising academic contents led to efficient plagiarism detectors. In the existing plagiarism detection tools, we
have to put the contents from our paper or assignment and paste it into the input box for checking plagiarism or we have to load our
files separately. Software under the domain artificial intelligence is moving towards the creation of a systems that can make tasks
hassle-free and it also saves the time. Students copying assignments from one another is a problem that might not always get
detected through conventional plagiarism scanners. An effective scanning system is required to cut the rise of taking short cuts by
copying ideas from other students.
“Smart Assignment Plagiarism Detector” can provide easy and efficient way of checking plagiarised data for teachers just in a
single click by uploading a folder. This paper explains how our system is solving the problem of plagiarism through the use of
algorithm in artificial intelligence.
There are many string matching algorithms available one of which is Cosine similarity algorithm. This algorithm is also explained
in the paper. Students copying assignments from one another is a problem that might not always get detected through conventional
plagiarism scanners. To check the assignments manually for plagiarised data is not an easy task. To make it easy and time saving we
are introducing “Smart Assignment Plagiarism Detector”. In this, there is no need to upload each and every file separately. To check
the plagiarism of the assignments, we just have to upload the folder where all the files are stored and the system will compare each
file with another file in the folder and gives the final output. The system makes unique comparisons every time eliminating repeated
comparisons.
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
Sr. Title Publication Year Technology Used Introduction
no
1. Measuring Text Science 2020 structural similarity The proposed approach
Similarity Based on direct and word embedding combines structural
Structure and Word (Elsevier) similarity, word-to-word
Embedding. similarity and word order
similarity approaches
2. A New Hybrid Springer 2020 Extrinsic plagiarism The proposed system uses
Technique for detection · Semantic multiple linguistic features
Detection of resemblance · and matrix similarity
Plagiarism from Text Linguistic features, measures for computing the
Documents Plagiarism detection, resemblance.
Natural language
processing.

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3. Exact String IEEE 2019 String matching, The work focuses only on
Matching Boyer-Moore, Rabin- software-based pattern string
Algorithms: Issues, Karp, exact string matching algorithms and
and Future Research matching, pattern their applications
Directions. matching, pattern
recognition
4. Text similarity IEEE 2021 Computational The paper proposes a text
analysis for Intelligence · analysis based automated
evaluation of MaLSTM approach for automatic
descriptive answers. evaluation of the descriptive
answers in an examination.
5. Plagiarism Detection IEEE 2014 Jaccard similarity, The paper focuses on an
on Electronic Text Cosine similarity effective plagiarism
based Assignments detection tool to identify
using Vector Space suitable plagiarism detection
Model for text based assignments
by comparing unigram,
bigram, trigram of vector
space model with cosine
similarity measure.
6. An improved Elsevier 2012 Character-based The paper introduces a
plagiarism detection methods, Cluster- plagiarism detection
scheme based on based methods, technique based on the
semantic role labeling Syntax-based Semantic Role Labeling
methods, Cross (SRL).
language-based
methods.

7.. A New Approach for Springer 2010 J48 classification The paper presents a new
Cross-Language algorithm method for Cross-Language
Plagiarism Analysis Plagiarism Analysis for
detecting the plagiarized
passages in the suspicious
documents and their
corresponding fragments in
the source documents

In [1] the author proposed the approach which combines different similarity measures in the calculation of sentence similarity. In
addition to traditional word-to-word similarity measure, the proposed approach exploits sentence semantic structure. This proposed
method outperforms the current approaches on a standard benchmark dataset achieving 0.8813 Pearson correlation with human
similarity.
In [2] the author represented a survey on single pattern exact string matching algorithms. The author proposed this to understand
new classification, identify new directions and highlight the possible challenges, current trends, and future works in the area of
string matching algorithms with a core focus on exact string matching algorithms.
In [3] the author introduced an extrinsic plagiarism detection approach inspired by cognition because it utilizes semantic knowledge
to detect the plagiarized part from the text without human involvement. The author used the Dice measure as similarity measure for
finding the semantic resemblance between the pair of sentences. This article is capable of identifying cases like restructuring,
paraphrasing, verbatim copy, and synonymized plagiarism. The proposed system was having innovative approach, but the results
were somehow close and reasonably better than the existing systems.

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In [4] the author proposes the text analysis based approach for evaluation of the descriptive answers in an examination. This
research focuses on the concepts of Natural Language Processing and data mining .In this paper the text similarity model is based on
the MaLSTM.
In [5] the paper focuses on an effective plagiarism detection tool to identify suitable plagiarism detection for text based assignments
by comparing unigram, bigram, trigram of vector space model with cosine similarity measure
In [6] the author proposed an automatic plagiarism detection system for obfuscated text based on a support vector machine classifier
that exploits a set of lexical, syntactic and semantic feature.
In [7] the author introduced Weighting for each argument generated by Semantic Role Labelling (SRL) to study its behaviour. The
experimental results on PAN-PC-09 data sets showed that the proposed method significantly outperforms the modern methods for
plagiarism detection in terms of Recall, Precision and F-measure.
In [16] Semantic web technology seems to be in the infant stage as only little efforts have been taken on ontology construction with
cross-domain application. The core concern of this work is on two decision-making processes namely data filtering and data
annotation. Certain process is followed in this work: (i) Pre-processing (ii) Proposed Jaccard Similarity Evaluation (iii) Data
filtering and Outlier Detection (iv) Semantic annotation and clustering.
In [17] Industry and Institute both are equally responsible to develop quality students. In this paper, cross domain (Industry domain
and Institute domain) ontology based semantic models are developed to bridge the institute-industry gap using Protégé 5.5.0 editor.
The classes and sub classes of Industry Institute ontology are designed with the help of domain experts.

III. METHODOLOGY

A. System Architecture

Fig. 1: Proposed System Architecture

In the given system architecture (Fig. 1), students can upload the n number of assignments in the folder which will work as a
database/ storage. When teacher wants to check for the plagiarism, he/she just have to upload a folder in the system by clicking on
the upload button. System will check plagiarism for every file in that folder by uniquely comparing them with each other. The
system will eliminate duplicate comparisons from the result table. After comparing every file, it will generate the result table with
compared file names, plagiarism percentage between them and the remark.
We have set the limits for giving the remark as highly plagiarised, medium plagiarised, low plagiarised by keeping in mind the
grading system of Savitribai Phule Pune University.

B. Algorithm
1) Cosine Similarity
Cosine Similarity = Cos θ

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Here,
Θ = the angle between two projected vectors.
The value of Cos θ ranges from -1 to 1 and hence the value of cosine similarity also ranges from -1 to 1.
To calculate the plagiarism in percentage we just have to multiply the result obtained from cosine similarity algorithm by 100.

M. N
Similarity (M, N) = ----------------------
||M|| * ||N||

Here,
M = Vector M
N = Vector N
||M|| = square root of square of vector M
||N|| = square root of square of vector N
We can calculate similarity between vector M and vector N by using the above formula.

2) System Algorithm

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C. Description
1) First of all we have declared two variables viz. vectorize and similarity. These variables vectorize and similarity are defined as
Vectorize = lambda Text: TfidfVectorizer ().fit_transform (Text).toarray ()
Similarity = lambda doc1, doc2: cosine_similarity([doc1, doc2]
2) Now we have defined check plagiarism method and passed folder as input where all the assignments are stored.
3) All the assignments with “.txt” extension in the specified folder are stored in the variable named student files.
4) We have defined one list name student notes.
5) The function given below reads the text files and stores it into student notes = []
student_notes.append (open (File).read ())
6) The file gets converted into vectors using vectorize () function and stores it into variable named vectors.
7) The function vectorize () assigns a number to each word and creates a 1-D array of it.
8) We are creating a list by zipping the student files and vectors and assigning it to s_vectors variable.
9) The function set () used is avoiding the duplicate comparisons.
10) The index of zipped file gets passed to a current vectors variable.
11) Using for loop, we are calculating the similarity score between all the stored files one by one.
12) Now we are passing the name of file 1, name of file 2 and percentage of similarity score to the score variable for displaying it
in result.html page.
13) Finally we are returning the final result to app.py file.

IV. RESULT AND ANALYSIS

A. Result
After comparing files in the folder, we will get the plagiarism in percentage. There are total 4 columns in the result table namely:
1) File 1
2) File 2
3) Plagiarism in % and
4) Remark.

Remark is given on the basis of grading system of Savitribai Phule Pune University. Remark includes highly plagiarised, medium
plagiarised and low plagiarised.
On the basis of remark obtained, rows in the table gets highlighted in the colour given below:
For highly plagiarised.
For medium plagiarised.
For low plagiarised.

B. Analysis
After comparing Cosine similarity with many other similarity measures, we understood that Cosine similarity is better than other
similarity measures.

1) Why Cosine similarity is better than Euclidean Distance?

Ans: Cosine is better than Euclidean because there is possibility that two documents can measure far apart by Euclidean distance
due to size of the document but it may have small angle between them which gives accurate similarity.

2) Why Cosine similarity is better than Jaccard?

Ans: Jaccard similarity is not good for cases where duplication do matter, cosine similarity is good for cases where duplication
matters while analysing text similarity. After researching more about the plagiarism tools, we found that there is no tool available
who checks for multiple files at a time. There are tools available who checks 2 files at a time with each other. But our system checks
more than 2 files simultaneously. We also analysed the time for comparing 4 files using existing plagiarism tool and using “Smart
Assignment Plagiarism Detector” and we understood that time taken by existing system to compare 4 files is more than the time
taken by our system for the same number of files.

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V. SYSTEM SCREENSHOTS
Here screenshots of the system are attached.
1) Front Page: This is the front page. The page contains Nav bar, Footer, one button which will navigate us to the 2nd page of the
system and we have also included some features of the system.

2) Home Page 1: This is the home page. It includes Nav bar and one button to choose the folder.

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3) Home Page 2: This page displays the list of assignments stored in the specific folder.

4) Result Page: This page shows the result table with 4 columns namely File 1, File 2, Plagiarism in % and Remark.

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5) Contact us Page: After hitting the contact we button on Nav bar it will redirect to a feedback form.

6) About Page: The page describes a brief introduction of our system

VI. CONCLUSION
This paper explains the approach to solve the academic plagiarism problem. The algorithm used in the system is comparing multiple
files for the calculation of plagiarised data with a single folder upload. Also, it is giving the unique comparisons by eliminating the
duplicate ones. Here, we have used Cosine similarity measure to calculate similarity as, cosine similarity measure shows slightly
higher results than Jaccard similarity measure and therefore cosine similarity measure is more preferable than the other approach
[5].

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VII. FUTURE WORK

The future work for this research is to improve the UI, focus on adding the OCR technology in the system to find out the plagiarism
in pictures, one can modify the system to recognize the handwritten assignments also.
The future work for this research is to detect the plagiarism in flowcharts and videos. Along with that to develop it from business
point of view into a possible product for use.

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