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How to detect plagiarism in text using Python
Intro
Hi guys,
In this tutorial, we're going to learn how to Make a Plagiarism Detector in Python using machine learning techniques such as word2vec and cosine similarity in just a few lines of code.
Overview
Once finished our plagiarism detector will be capable of loading a students assignment from files and then compute the similarity to determine if students copied each other.
Requirements
To be able to follow through this tutorial you need to have scikit-learn installed on your machine.
Installation
pip install -U scikit-learn
How do we analyze text?
We all know that computers can only understand 0s and 1s, and for us to perform some computation on textual data we need a way to convert the text into numbers.
Word embedding
The process of converting the textual data into an array of numbers is generally known as word embedding.
The vectorization of textual data to vectors is not a random process instead it follows certain algorithms resulting in words being represented as a position in space. we going to use scikit-learn built-in features to do this.
How do we detect similarity in documents?
Here we gonna use the basic concept of vector, dot product to determine how closely two texts are similar by computing the value of cosine similarity between vectors representations of students text assignments.
Also, you need to have sample text documents on the students assignments which we gonna use in testing our model.
The text files need to be in the same directory with your script with an extension of .txt, If you wanna use sample textfiles I used for this tutorial download here
The project directory should look like this
. app.py fatma.txt image.png john.txt juma.txt
Let's now build our Plagiarism detector
- Lets first import all necessary modules
import osfrom sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizerfrom sklearn.metrics.pairwise import cosine_similarity
we gonna use OS Module in loading paths of textfiles and then TfidfVectorizer to perform word embedding on our textual data and cosine similarity to compute the plagiarism.
- Reading all text files using List Comprehension
We are going to use concepts of a list comprehension to load all the path textfiles on our project directory as shown below.
student_files = [doc for doc in os.listdir() if doc.endswith('.txt')]
- Lambda function to Vectorize & Compute Similarity
We need to create two lambda functions, one to convert the text to arrays of numbers and the other one to compute the similarity between them.
vectorize = lambda Text: TfidfVectorizer().fit_transform(Text).toarray()similarity = lambda doc1, doc2: cosine_similarity([doc1, doc2])
- Vectorize the Textual Data
adding the below two lines to vectorize the loaded student files.
vectors = vectorize(student_notes)s_vectors = list(zip(student_files, vectors))
- Creating a Function to Compute Similarity
Below is the main function of our script responsible for managing the whole process of computing the similarity among students.
def check_plagiarism(): plagiarism_results = set() global s_vectors for student_a, text_vector_a in s_vectors: new_vectors =s_vectors.copy() current_index = new_vectors.index((student_a, text_vector_a)) del new_vectors[current_index] for student_b , text_vector_b in new_vectors: sim_score = similarity(text_vector_a, text_vector_b)[0][1] student_pair = sorted((student_a, student_b)) score = (student_pair[0], student_pair[1],sim_score) plagiarism_results.add(score) return plagiarism_resultsLets print plagiarism resultsfor data in check_plagiarism(): print(data)
- Final code
When you compile down all the above concepts, you get the below full scripts ready to ** to detect plagiarism** among student's assignments.
import osfrom sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizerfrom sklearn.metrics.pairwise import cosine_similaritystudent_files = [doc for doc in os.listdir() if doc.endswith('.txt')]student_notes =[open(File).read() for File in student_files]vectorize = lambda Text: TfidfVectorizer().fit_transform(Text).toarray()similarity = lambda doc1, doc2: cosine_similarity([doc1, doc2])vectors = vectorize(student_notes)s_vectors = list(zip(student_files, vectors))def check_plagiarism(): plagiarism_results = set() global s_vectors for student_a, text_vector_a in s_vectors: new_vectors =s_vectors.copy() current_index = new_vectors.index((student_a, text_vector_a)) del new_vectors[current_index] for student_b , text_vector_b in new_vectors: sim_score = similarity(text_vector_a, text_vector_b)[0][1] student_pair = sorted((student_a, student_b)) score = (student_pair[0], student_pair[1],sim_score) plagiarism_results.add(score) return plagiarism_results for data in check_plagiarism(): print(data)
- Output :
Once you run the above app.py the out will look as shown below
$ python app.py#__________RESULT ___________('john.txt', 'juma.txt', 0.5465972177348937)('fatma.txt', 'john.txt', 0.14806887549598566)('fatma.txt', 'juma.txt', 0.18643448370323362)
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The original article can be found at kalebujordan.com
Kalebu / Plagiarism-checker-Python
This is Simple project for checking plagiarism of text documents using cosine similarity
Plagiarism-checker-Python
This is Simple project for checking plagiarism of text documents using cosine similarity
On Demo I have used three textfiles on thesame directory with app.py , once we run the appit will open all textfile and tries to find the similarities between them by using cosine similarity
I used TfidfVectorizer to convert text to vectors so asI can computer the cosine similarity
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
I used scikit-learn to computer the cosine similarity
from sklearn.metrics.pairwise import cosine_similarity
Once you ran your application, output may look like something below
python app.py
Original Link: https://dev.to/kalebu/how-to-detect-plagiarism-in-text-using-python-dpk
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