Text Document Plagiarism Detector

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of diploma thesis concerned with research on availablemethods of plagiarism detection and then with design and implementation of such detector. Primaryaim is to detect plagiarism within academic works or theses issued at BUT. The detector uses sophisticatedpreprocessing algorithms to store documents in its own NoSQL corpus. Implementedcomparison algorithms are designed for parallel execution on graphical processing units and theycompare a single subject document against all other documents within the corpus in the shortest timepossible, enabling near real-time detection capabilities.