Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection in Arabic Text: Preliminary Experiments

Abstract

Abstrac t. This paper presents a preliminary study on intrinsic plagiarism detection in Arabic textual documents. A set of experiments were conducted to gain an insight into the effect of some well-known language-independent stylistic features on Arabic text discrimination. We used Stylysis tool to measure these features on our small-sized corpus. Keywo rds: Intrinsic plagiarism detection, Arabic text discrimination, Stylistic features