Content similarity detection

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Plagiarism detection or content similarity detection is the process of locating instances of plagiarism or copyright infringement within a work or document. The widespread use of computers and the advent of the Internet have made it easier to plagiarize the work of others.^[1][2]

Detection of plagiarism can be undertaken in a variety of ways. Human detection is the most traditional form of identifying plagiarism from written work. This can be a lengthy and time-consuming task for the reader^[2] and can also result in inconsistencies in how plagiarism is identified within an organization.^[3] Text-matching software (TMS), which is also referred to as "plagiarism detection software" or "anti-plagiarism" software, has become widely available, in the form of both commercially available products as well as open-source^{[examples needed]} software. TMS does not actually detect plagiarism per se, but instead finds specific passages of text in one document that match text in another document.