Plagiarism Detection Tool for I ndian Languages with Special focus on H indi and P unjabi (2020)

Abstract: Plagiarism is closely linked with Intellectual Property Rights and Copyrights laws, both of which have been formed to protect the ownership of the concept. Most of the available tools for detecting plagiarism when tested with sample Punjabi text, failed to recognise the Punjabi text and the ones, which supported Punjabi text, did a simple string comparison for detecting the suspected copy-paste plagiarism, ignoring the other forms of plagiarism such as word switching, synonym replacement and sentence switching etc.

## introduction the above discussed problem led to the scope of development of a specialised software that can bridge the gap. the present software tool aims at providing successful recognition and reporting of plagiarism among punjabi and hindi documents. this tool is mainly aimed for universities, colleges or other academic institutions, to check the plagiarism report for the submitted work, be a ph.d. thesis, m.phil. thesis or a research paper of some kind. the software is built using modular approach and open source technologies. the language dependent components are kept separate from the main programme engine, so that the engine could be used with any other compatible languages. the main responsibilities for "admin" are to maintain and configure the various aspects of site for the optimal use of the system. "admin" can also test the modular systems in isolation to pinpoint the problem if any arises during the production environment, which is helpful in debugging the system down the road without putting it offline. the "manager" is the organizational level head, which can add or manage users to the system under their domain. a "user" is the lowest form of functional account that can be created on this site. each user can create jobs that contains the documents, articles, papers etc. that needs to be checked. the plagiarism detection tool is under the process of being trademarked in accordance with miety, under the title "shodhmapak". the copyright has been successfully granted, for the same, to punjabi university, patiala in conjunction with miety. the software tool is available online for general public at -