Implementation of the Plagiarism Detection Software used in Universities

Abstract

Plagiarism is a serious problem not only in Vietnam but also in almost all other countries. Many software packages have been proposed to detect plagiarism on the content of the text. However, most of these packages are from foreign countries, it is difficult to check the documents using Vietnamese language. The plagiarism detection software named BKCheck is designed and developed to solve this problem. This software has the ability to provide the similarity among documents based on user's database. The results are reported as the percentage of similarity among documents. Besides, the software also shows the position of similar sentences or paragraphs, which allows users to easily verify the results. It has been tested and provides reliable results in School of Electronics and Telecommunications (SET), Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST).