<div dir="ltr"><div>Is it possible you've stumbled upon an NLP-based, Sokal-esque probing of the peer review process? (I can't read German enough to tell if it's just garden-variety academic fraud.)</div></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 1:39 PM, farrell ackerman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fackerman@ucsd.edu" target="_blank">fackerman@ucsd.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style><div>If all of this is at it seems, this is revealing itself as a sort of artistry: the impulse to create articles based entirely on</div>
<div>pieces of other peoples' publications seems engagingly perverse, while the talent for </div><div>culling and contextualizing is wondrous. -Farrell</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Mar 29, 2014, at 12:30 PM, Detmar Meurers wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Stefan,<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Just in case there is any doubt: I put together a file with the stolen<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">passages marked:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/Plagiarism/TYPOLOGICA_CarmenCastro.pdf" target="_blank">http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/Plagiarism/TYPOLOGICA_CarmenCastro.pdf</a><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This document contains pointers to the original work for comparison.<br></blockquote><br>thank you for making the case public - it truly seems to be a striking<br>
case of plagiarism. I had a look at the beginning of the paper (one of<br>the few parts not copied from your work - and so far everything I<br>checked also was copied from other sources!<br><br>The first sentence is an almost verbatim copy from Jokinen's 2005<br>
dissertation, cf. p. 13 of<br><a href="http://tampub.uta.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/67550/951-44-6453-2.pdf?sequence=1" target="_blank">http://tampub.uta.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/67550/951-44-6453-2.pdf?sequence=1</a><br>
<br>The next sentences "Aus DaZ-didaktischer Perspektive gelten<br>... bewältigt werden." is taken from Beate Lütke's article:<br><a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=YXHYAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA33&ots=iPlNlH6SWO&dq=%22DaZ-didaktischer%20Perspektive%20gelten%22%20pr%C3%A4positionale%20Verbindungen%20im%20ungesteuerten%20Kontext%20als%20schwer%20zu%20erwerbende%20Strukturen%22&hl=de&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q=%22DaZ-didaktischer%20Perspektive%20gelten%22%20pr%C3%A4positionale%20Verbindungen%20im%20ungesteuerten%20Kontext%20als%20schwer%20zu%20erwerbende%20Strukturen%22&f=false" target="_blank">http://books.google.de/books?id=YXHYAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA33&ots=iPlNlH6SWO&dq=%22DaZ-didaktischer%20Perspektive%20gelten%22%20pr%C3%A4positionale%20Verbindungen%20im%20ungesteuerten%20Kontext%20als%20schwer%20zu%20erwerbende%20Strukturen%22&hl=de&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q=%22DaZ-didaktischer%20Perspektive%20gelten%22%20pr%C3%A4positionale%20Verbindungen%20im%20ungesteuerten%20Kontext%20als%20schwer%20zu%20erwerbende%20Strukturen%22&f=false</a><br>
<br>The next part about kognitivistische Modelle is again copied, from another<br>publication of Beate Lütke:<br><a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=cmXJqJ9UbFoC&lpg=PA95&ots=onWTl5rM0L&dq=%22L2-Aneignungsprozess%20%C3%BCber%20eine%20Prozessfolge%20verlaufe%22&hl=de&pg=PA95#v=onepage&q=%22L2-Aneignungsprozess%20%C3%BCber%20eine%20Prozessfolge%20verlaufe%22&f=false" target="_blank">http://books.google.de/books?id=cmXJqJ9UbFoC&lpg=PA95&ots=onWTl5rM0L&dq=%22L2-Aneignungsprozess%20%C3%BCber%20eine%20Prozessfolge%20verlaufe%22&hl=de&pg=PA95#v=onepage&q=%22L2-Aneignungsprozess%20%C3%BCber%20eine%20Prozessfolge%20verlaufe%22&f=false</a><br>
<br>Unbelievable.<br><br>All the best,<br>Detmar<br><br><blockquote type="cite">If you are on researchgate you may Open Review her paper or downvote it.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">downvote is anonymous, so doing a review might be better for her. That<br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">way she can see the faces of people who disapprove of such a behavior.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I also started a discussion of the paper which you may join (or just<br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">upvote):<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/post/Shouldnt_this_paper_be_withdrawn_from_researchgate_Plagiarism" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/post/Shouldnt_this_paper_be_withdrawn_from_researchgate_Plagiarism</a><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks for your support!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Best wishes<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
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</div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div> <span style><div style><span style><div style><div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"><i>Farrell Ackerman</i></span></font></div>
<div><i>Professor, Dept. of Linguistics UCSD</i></div><div><i>Director of Human Development Program UCSD</i></div><div><br></div></div></span><br></div></span><br> </div><br></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div>