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From: "Stéphane Glondu" <steph@glondu.net>
To: Andrej Bauer <andrej.bauer@andrej.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml clone detector
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:30:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AA0FA3B.40503@glondu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d8707de0909022238w3124a0a7v1756a577e8467f76@mail.gmail.com>

Andrej Bauer a écrit :
> As far as student plagiarism goes, we found out that for Java
> programs, you can pretty much detect frauds by erasing everything from
> the programs except parentheses ( ) { } and then comparing the
> remaining strings for editing distance. My explanation is that
> students who copy code don't want to spend much time on it. In order
> to chance the parenthesis they would have to understand the structure
> of the program, which they don't.

This reminds me of:

  http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~su/publications/icse07.pdf


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-04 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-03  0:21 Kihong Heo
2009-09-03  1:19 ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2009-09-03  1:56   ` Jacques Carette
2009-09-03  3:14     ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2009-09-03  5:38       ` Andrej Bauer
2009-09-03 15:06         ` Nicolas barnier
2009-09-03 23:13           ` John Clements
2009-09-04 11:30         ` Stéphane Glondu [this message]

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