PlagiarismChecker

Quick script to check for plagiarism between two documents.

Supports variable length checking and synonyms (adds significant time).

Synonyms obtained from: https://github.com/FinNLP/synonyms

Documents must be TEXT files!

How to use

This was made to be a class, but if you want to use it as is:

python3 ./check.py questionable_file.txt possible_source.txt check_synonyms(true/false) length_to_check

time python3 ../PlagiarismChecker/check.py test_output.txt input.txt true 6
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Speed results

$ wc test_output.txt
2  202 1170 test_output.txt

$ cat data/fw/input.txt
4078  214831 1230725

With checking synonyms:

$ time python3 ../PlagiarismChecker/check.py test_output.txt input.txt t 6

real    8m19.381s
user    8m19.288s
sys 0m0.028s

Without checking synonyms:

$ time python3 ../PlagiarismChecker/check.py test_output.txt input.txt f 6

real    0m21.929s
user    0m21.880s
sys 0m0.044s