Use Plagiarism Detection Starter File to respond to the questions, below.
distance-to
1 In the Interactions Area, type distance-to(student-essay). The table that appears displays the angle difference between student-essay and each of the other animal articles in the corpus. Use the information to fill in the blanks, below.
| article | angle difference | |
|---|---|---|
most similar to |
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most different from |
2 In the Interactions Area, type distance-to(chimpanzee-article). One of the angle differences listed in the table that appears is zero. What does that tell you?
3 Use the output of distance-to(chimpanzee-article) to fill in the blanks, below.
| article | angle difference | |
|---|---|---|
most similar to |
||
most different from |
4 Is distance-to sophisticated enough to be able to determine with certainty whether or not plagiarism occurred? Explain.
5 Can you think of any ways to improve this model?
string-to-bag-cleaned
6 In the Interactions Area, type string-to-bag(snail-article).
a) How many unique words are used in the snail article?
b) List each word that is used 2 or more times in the article. We’ve provided the first three: a (2), and (3), be (3),
c) What do you Notice about the commonly used words? What do you Wonder?
7 In the Interactions Area, type string-to-bag-cleaned(snail-article).
a) Notice that there are fewer unique words listed. How many unique words are on the table now?
b) List each word that appears 2 or more times, now:
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