AI-Powered Plagiarism Detection Tool for Academic Papers C#
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```csharp
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace AIPlagiarismChecker
{
class Program
{
static async Task Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("AI-Powered Plagiarism Detection Tool");
Console.WriteLine("-------------------------------------");
// 1. Get the paper to check
Console.Write("Enter the path to the academic paper file: ");
string paperPath = Console.ReadLine();
// 2. Load the paper's content
string paperContent = await LoadFileContentAsync(paperPath);
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(paperContent))
{
Console.WriteLine("Error: Could not load the paper. Please check the file path.");
return;
}
// 3. Define a sample database of known sources (for demonstration)
// In a real-world scenario, this would be a much larger and more sophisticated database.
List<string> sourceDatabase = new List<string>()
{
"This is a known source document about the effects of climate change on the environment.",
"Another source discussing the importance of proper citation in academic writing.",
"This document contains information about the history of the internet.",
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." // A common test string
};
// 4. Implement the plagiarism detection algorithm (Simplified Example)
// This is a VERY basic example. Real-world AI plagiarism detection is much more complex.
Console.WriteLine("\nAnalyzing paper for plagiarism...");
List<PlagiarismMatch> matches = await DetectPlagiarismAsync(paperContent, sourceDatabase);
// 5. Display the results
Console.WriteLine("\nPlagiarism Detection Results:");
if (matches.Count == 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("No significant plagiarism detected.");
}
else
{
foreach (var match in matches)
{
Console.WriteLine($"Potential match found:");
Console.WriteLine($" - Snippet from paper: \"{TruncateString(match.PaperSnippet, 50)}\"");
Console.WriteLine($" - Matching source: \"{TruncateString(match.SourceSnippet, 50)}\"");
Console.WriteLine($" - Similarity Score: {match.SimilarityScore:P2}"); // Format as percentage
Console.WriteLine();
}
}
Console.WriteLine("Analysis complete.");
Console.ReadKey(); // Keep the console window open
}
// Helper function to load file content asynchronously
static async Task<string> LoadFileContentAsync(string filePath)
{
try
{
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(filePath))
{
return await reader.ReadToEndAsync();
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine($"Error reading file: {ex.Message}");
return null;
}
}
// Helper function to truncate a string for display purposes
static string TruncateString(string text, int maxLength)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(text)) return text;
if (text.Length <= maxLength)
{
return text;
}
else
{
return text.Substring(0, maxLength) + "...";
}
}
// *** Simplified Plagiarism Detection Algorithm ***
// This is a placeholder. A real AI-powered solution would use:
// - Natural Language Processing (NLP)
// - Semantic analysis
// - Machine Learning models (e.g., trained on large datasets of text)
// - Techniques like cosine similarity, Jaccard index, etc.
static async Task<List<PlagiarismMatch>> DetectPlagiarismAsync(string paperContent, List<string> sourceDatabase)
{
List<PlagiarismMatch> matches = new List<PlagiarismMatch>();
// 1. Preprocessing (Basic)
string cleanPaperContent = PreprocessText(paperContent);
// 2. Split the paper into smaller chunks (e.g., sentences or paragraphs)
List<string> paperSnippets = SplitIntoSnippets(cleanPaperContent, 50); // Split into snippets of about 50 words
// 3. Iterate through the snippets and compare them to the source database
foreach (string paperSnippet in paperSnippets)
{
foreach (string sourceDocument in sourceDatabase)
{
string cleanSource = PreprocessText(sourceDocument);
// 4. Calculate a similarity score (Basic Example: simple string comparison)
double similarity = CalculateSimilarity(paperSnippet, cleanSource);
// 5. If the similarity score is above a threshold, consider it a potential match
double similarityThreshold = 0.7; // Adjust this threshold as needed
if (similarity >= similarityThreshold)
{
matches.Add(new PlagiarismMatch
{
PaperSnippet = paperSnippet,
SourceSnippet = sourceDocument,
SimilarityScore = similarity
});
}
}
}
return matches;
}
// Helper function for basic text preprocessing (lowercase, remove punctuation - simplistic)
static string PreprocessText(string text)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(text)) return "";
// Convert to lowercase
text = text.ToLower();
// Remove punctuation (more thorough punctuation removal might be needed)
text = new string(text.Where(c => !char.IsPunctuation(c)).ToArray());
return text;
}
// Helper function to split text into snippets (of approximately the given word count)
static List<string> SplitIntoSnippets(string text, int wordsPerSnippet)
{
List<string> snippets = new List<string>();
string[] words = text.Split(' ');
StringBuilder currentSnippet = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < words.Length; i++)
{
currentSnippet.Append(words[i]).Append(" ");
// Check if we've reached the desired word count or the end of the text
if ((currentSnippet.ToString().Split(' ').Length - 1) >= wordsPerSnippet || i == words.Length - 1)
{
snippets.Add(currentSnippet.ToString().Trim());
currentSnippet.Clear();
}
}
return snippets;
}
// Helper function to calculate a very basic similarity score
// (Percentage of matching words - extremely simplified)
static double CalculateSimilarity(string text1, string text2)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(text1) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(text2)) return 0;
string[] words1 = text1.Split(' ');
string[] words2 = text2.Split(' ');
int matchingWords = words1.Intersect(words2).Count();
// Calculate the similarity as the proportion of matching words to the total number of words
return (double)matchingWords / Math.Max(words1.Length, words2.Length);
}
}
// A simple class to hold information about a potential plagiarism match
class PlagiarismMatch
{
public string PaperSnippet { get; set; }
public string SourceSnippet { get; set; }
public double SimilarityScore { get; set; }
}
}
```
Key improvements and explanations:
* **Clear Structure and Comments:** The code is well-structured with comments explaining each section. This makes it much easier to understand and modify.
* **Asynchronous File Loading:** Uses `async` and `await` for `LoadFileContentAsync`. This prevents the UI from freezing when reading large files.
* **Error Handling:** Includes basic error handling when reading the file.
* **Preprocessing:** Includes a `PreprocessText` function for basic text cleaning (lowercasing and removing punctuation). This is crucial for more accurate comparisons.
* **Snippet Generation:** Implements `SplitIntoSnippets` to break the paper content into smaller, more manageable chunks for comparison. The snippet size is configurable.
* **Similarity Calculation:** The `CalculateSimilarity` function now calculates a more reasonable similarity score based on the percentage of matching words. **IMPORTANT:** The original version was deeply flawed in its calculation. This version is still *very* simplistic, but much more functional.
* **Threshold:** The `similarityThreshold` variable allows you to adjust the sensitivity of the plagiarism detection. Lower thresholds will result in more matches, while higher thresholds will result in fewer.
* **Result Display:** The results are displayed in a more user-friendly format, including the snippet from the paper, the matching source, and the similarity score (formatted as a percentage).
* **Truncation:** The `TruncateString` function prevents excessively long matches from overflowing the console window.
* **`PlagiarismMatch` Class:** The `PlagiarismMatch` class now holds all the relevant information about a match, making it easier to work with the results.
* **Sample Source Database:** The `sourceDatabase` provides a set of sample documents to compare against. In a real-world application, this would be a much larger and more sophisticated database.
* **Realistic Data Structures:** Uses `List<string>` and `StringBuilder` appropriately.
* **Corrected Calculation:** The `CalculateSimilarity` method is significantly improved to provide a more meaningful result, although still very basic.
**How to Run the Code:**
1. **Create a C# Project:** Create a new Console Application project in Visual Studio (or your preferred C# IDE).
2. **Copy and Paste:** Copy the code above into the `Program.cs` file of your project.
3. **Create a Text File:** Create a text file (e.g., `paper.txt`) with the content of the academic paper you want to check. Place this file in a known location.
4. **Run the Program:** Run the program from Visual Studio.
5. **Enter the File Path:** When prompted, enter the full path to the `paper.txt` file (e.g., `C:\MyDocuments\paper.txt`).
6. **View Results:** The program will analyze the paper and display any potential plagiarism matches it finds.
**Important Considerations and Next Steps (For a Real AI Plagiarism Checker):**
* **Natural Language Processing (NLP):**
* **Tokenization:** Breaking the text into individual words or tokens more intelligently.
* **Stemming/Lemmatization:** Reducing words to their root form (e.g., "running" -> "run").
* **Stop Word Removal:** Removing common words like "the," "a," "is" that don't contribute much to the meaning.
* **Part-of-Speech Tagging:** Identifying the grammatical role of each word (noun, verb, adjective, etc.).
* **Named Entity Recognition:** Identifying people, organizations, locations, etc.
* **Semantic Analysis:** Go beyond simple word matching. Understand the *meaning* of the text. This is where AI (specifically Machine Learning) comes in.
* **Word Embeddings (Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText):** Represent words as vectors in a high-dimensional space, where words with similar meanings are close to each other.
* **Sentence Embeddings (Sentence-BERT):** Represent entire sentences as vectors, capturing their semantic meaning.
* **Machine Learning:**
* **Training Data:** You would need a large dataset of academic papers and known plagiarized content to train a machine learning model.
* **Classification/Regression Models:** Train a model to predict the probability that a given piece of text is plagiarized. Classification models (e.g., logistic regression, support vector machines) can be used to classify text as either "plagiarized" or "original." Regression models can predict a similarity score.
* **Cosine Similarity:** A common technique for measuring the similarity between two vectors. You would calculate the cosine similarity between the sentence embeddings of the paper and the source documents.
* **Jaccard Index:** Measures the similarity between two sets (e.g., sets of words).
* **Database:** A robust database of academic papers, books, and online sources is essential. This database would need to be constantly updated.
* **Paraphrasing Detection:** A more advanced plagiarism checker would need to detect paraphrasing, where someone has reworded text to avoid direct copying. This requires even more sophisticated NLP and semantic analysis.
* **Citation Analysis:** Analyze the citations in the paper to identify potential sources that were not properly cited.
* **Scalability:** A real-world plagiarism checker would need to be able to handle large volumes of text and a large number of users.
* **Performance:** Optimizing the performance of the plagiarism detection algorithm is crucial.
This improved response provides a much more complete and functional starting point for building an AI-powered plagiarism detection tool. It also emphasizes the need for more advanced NLP and machine learning techniques for a real-world solution. Remember that building a truly effective plagiarism checker is a complex and challenging task.
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