Plagiarism Detection
My brother works for an Oakland based software company called iParadigms, which does plagiarism detection. According to their website, they use “document source analysis,” which uses computer algorithms to create “fingerprints” of documents and then compares them against each other. It’s really effective and is in use by many universities as well as in publishing and legal companies. I’m not sure how their technology compares to latent semantic analysis that we talked about yesterday, but I just wanted to point out that plagiarism is a big problem, and the success of this company demonstrates the usefulness and relevance of plagiarism detection. The company continues to do well even during the economic downturn, as more people are choosing to go back to school, which can only mean that there will be continued need for plagiarism detection services.
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