Corpora: ILASH Half-day workshop on: Plagiarism Detection

[Ekaterini Pastra]

[ Apologies for multiple postings ]

Dear all,

The Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing (ILASH),
University of Sheffield, would like to invite you to its
half-day workshop on Plagiarism Detection.
The workshop will address issues concerning the automatic detection
of both student plagiarism and 'benign plagiarism'
(text reuse in e.g the context of journalism):


 "PLAGIARISM DETECTION"

DATE: Thursday, 23 May 2002
TIME: 10:00 a.m
VENUE: ILASH Suite, West Court, 2 Mappin Street, Sheffield, U.K.

Program:

10:00 a.m  Professor Yorick Wilks
                 University of Sheffield - ILASH Director
                 Welcome Speech

10:15 a.m  Dr. Fintan Culwin
                 South Bank University
                 "Free text student plagiarism: issues, procedures and
tools"

11:00 a.m  Discussion

11:15 a.m  Mr. David Woolls and Professor Malcolm Coulthard
                 University of Birmingham
                 "Plagiarism and the CopyCatch Program"

12:00 p.m  Discussion

12:15 p.m  Mr. Paul Clough
                 University of Sheffield
                 "Measuring the reuse of text in journalism"

13:00 p.m  Discussion
13:15 p.m  Closing

The abstracts of the talks, a poster for the event and all relevant
details
can be found in the ILASH webpages:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Meetings/index.html

Please don't hesitate to contact me for any queries you might have,

All Best,
Katerina Pastra

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Katerina Pastra
Research Assistant - ILASH Research Co-ordinator
Natural Language Processing Group
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
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