[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of CopyInspector

[p . crabb]

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Peter JM Crabb <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: CopyInspector
System name: ci
This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

My project is called CopyInspector

CopyInspector is an application that highlights plagiarism in an programming 
environment. There are existing copy-detection tools available for academics 
but few with  both a simple and effective detection-engine. Most designs 
consist of collecting data on submitted files and then comparing the statistics 
gathered. More advanced and complex copy-detectors will parse the grammar and 
check for structural duplication.

CopyInspector\'s copy-detection engine is one derived from signal processing 
theory. The two files are compared by process similar to convolution. Each file 
is compared character by character and matches counted. The file is shifted and 
wrapped by one character and then compared again. A graph of similarity by 
shift number indicates duplication by way of a spike in the results. 

CopyInspector in its inital state at 
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/pcrabb/projects/projects.html#CopyInspector