Extracting sentences from a file and comparing them on the internet

Natasha Fokeer

Hello,

I am creating a plagiarism detector which can detect plagiarism from the internet using asp.net and c#.

It works as follows:

1. Upload a file(.txt,.doc or .rdf)

2. Click on the search button

3.Extract and compare each sentences from the file with articles from the internet.

Can anyone help please?

Thank you a lot in advance.

Best Regards,

Natasha

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Natasha Fokeer16y ago
Hello,

I have already uploaded the file. I am getting probs on part (b).How do i make the server read each sentence from the file?

b) have your server read each sentence of the file which could be seperated into an array with a string.Split('.') and then do a loop to use google to search for an exact string
http://www.google.com/search?q="search+string+goes+here"
during each loop use string.Replace(" ", "+") to replace the spaces with + signs so you can add the string to http://www.google.com/search?YOUR STRING GOES HERE. You also want to replace each "++" that you may get from double spaces with a single "+".

Can u help plz?

Thanks
Jacob R16y ago
1: Have you coded anything? If so what do you need actual help on?
2: Here is a few ideas

a) make the web page with a
tag containing a tag to allow the user to upload the file
b) have your server read each sentence of the file which could be seperated into an array with a string.Split('.') and then do a loop to use google to search for an exact string
http://www.google.com/search?q="search+string+goes+here"
during each loop use string.Replace(" ", "+") to replace the spaces with + signs so you can add the string to http://www.google.com/search?YOUR STRING GOES HERE. You also want to replace each "++" that you may get from double spaces with a single "+".
b) after the above search using webRequest/webResponse then you need to scrape the html data and extract some links that google returned and display it to who ever is using your service.

What I want to know is how much reprint is considered plagiarism? Also, what are you looking to get out of this?