Note: This version is superseded by the version 2.0.
This system was the best-performing at the first corpus and third best-performing at the second corpus in the Text Alignment task at the 2014 international competition PAN - Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse.
The system is described in the following paper(s):
Miguel Sanchez-Perez, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander Gelbukh. The Winning Approach to Text Alignment for Text Reuse Detection at PAN 2014. In: L. Cappellato, N. Ferro, M. Halvey, W. Kraaij (eds.). Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2014. CLEF 2014. CLEF2014 Working Notes. Sheffield, UK, September 15-18, 2014. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol. 1180, CEUR-WS.org, 2014, pp. 1004–1011.
(This paper can be also mistakenly indexed as “A Winning Approach to Text Alignment for Text Reuse Detection at PAN 2014”.)
Abstract of the same paper published separately.
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Version 1:
This is the version that was submitted to PAN 2014 and showed the best result of the 11 participating systems.
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