Survey of Text Plagiarism Detection

Ahmed Hamza Osman (International University of Africa, Faculty of Computer Studies, Khartoum, Sudan)
Naomie Salim (Faculty of Computer Science and Information System Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Albaraa Abuobieda (International University of Africa, Faculty of Computer Studies, Khartoum, Sudan)

Computer Engineering and Applications Journal (ComEngApp)
June 2012

In this paper we are going to review and list the advantages and limitations of the significant effective techniques employed or developed in text plagiarism detection.  It was found that many of the proposed methods for plagiarism detection have a weakness and lacking for detecting some types of plagiarized text. This paper discussed several important issues in plagiarism detection such as; plagiarism detection Tasks, plagiarism detection process and some of the current plagiarism detection techniques.